DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE13.150
Authors: Dr. Rita Pinto de Freitas
Abstract:
Hybrid architecture s is the result of the hybridization of three diverse natures in one intervention: object-related nature, landscape-related nature and infrastructure-related nature. Consequently, all architectural intervention is defined as hybrid that is at once object, landscape and infrastructure, an architectural intervention that simultaneously meets three conditions:
- It is a physical intervention that, as a result of a project, proposes an architectural space generated on the basis of human intervention.
- It is an architectural intervention, which is at the same time a landscape, beyond simply being an object placed within the landscape: using a variety of possible mechanisms (fusion, transformation, reconfiguration …), the architectural intervention integrates inseparably into the landscape.
- It is at once an architectural intervention and an infrastructure, beyond its connection to infrastructure: in transforming into a section of infrastructure itself, the architectural object becomes a part of the infrastructure and incorporates its laws and mechanisms of functioning.
Because of the specificity of hybrid architecture and since their qualities are neither the most evident nor habitual in architectural practice and conception, these qualities widen the conceptual framework of topics that are transversal and consubstantial to architecture (Context, Limits, Scale…) Once formulated, these qualities turn into main conceptual tools concerning architectural design in general, concerning the definition of the qualities of the space.
Keywords: Hybrid architecture; Landscape; Infrastructure; Context; Scale
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