The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
The building is structured as a central organization, whose programmatic core is the auditorium, and which, mediated by a circulatory bellows, deploys leisure and educational programs on the perimeter. The public programs of general access deploys in the outer ring of the ground floor, towards the Rodrigo Bueno neighborhood, the access, the bar and the library, with semi-covered areas extend the programs to the exterior.
The exhibition areas, both covered and semi-covered, are located towards the Ecological Reserve. Located in the center of the building, the auditorium has a permeable perimeter enclosure system that can be opened expanding its spatiality, extending its interior to the spaces of the entrance hall, the library and the exhibition hall. This modality enhances the use of the auditorium and makes a dynamic space that supports multiple uses even more flexible and expandable.
The building generates series of expansions both on the ground floor and on the top floor. The expansions are understood as extensions of the quality of the interior space in semi-covered and uncovered spaces. In the case of the library, the expansion is the connection with the bar, giving the possibility of the appearance of a hybrid space where the activities of both programs can be integrated.
Multiplicity Hybridindividualizator
Hybrid housing competition for the center of the city of Hamburg, Germany
Date 2015
Location Hamburg, Germany
Type Competition
Program Housing
Project team Santiago Miret and Melisa Brieva
Collaborator Mercedes Dequelli
The concept of collective housing is one of the newest regarding the disciplinary agenda of architecture. Was not until the beginning of the XIX Century that the main European cities started to be populated by workers escaping from the hunger and slavery labor of the rural areas, dreaming with the new possibilities industrialization was presenting in the urbanized centers. Only after WWII the collective housing topic emerges, not only as a disciplinary issue, but also as an example of architectural practice with endless new typologies and formal experimentations that started to take place in its ontology.
The Hybrindividualization Multiplicity project searches to generate the organizational conditions that allow the opportunity to dissolve the Habitat Unit understood in the ideal terms in which the modernism used to see it. The project is consolidated around parameters of intimacy-privacy that are deployed in order to establish collective interchange instances, both intimate and public at different scales. Utilizing the programmatic conditions of the competition, the possibility of collective living is considered where the interchange spaces are undefined and ambiguous. Developing emergent conditions of habitat, which allow not only a programmatic hybridization but also they induce the appearance of new hybrid programs for the collective way of life.
