Leftover Hybrid Dwellings
Investigating the socio-cultural drivers behind hybrid dwellings where the residential function is subordinated, and their role in urban and architectural evolution
B.A. Duma (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A.Y. Dündar – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A.J. Oxenaar – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Hybridity in residential architecture is increasingly regarded as a progressive urban strategy. Yet despite their apparent novelty, hybrid dwellings are deeply rooted in pre-individual architectural forms and reflect long-surpassed concepts. After comparing hybrids to their antithesis – building typologies – this essay will examine the darker side of hybridity: dwellings that offer compromised living conditions within programmatically confused building forms, presented in Atelier Bow Wow’s 2001 catalogue, Made in Tokyo. Besides uncovering their societal, cultural and historical underpinnings, the primary questions of interest will be how leftover hybrid dwellings affect domestic and urban spatial arrangements and how they hinder architectural evolution.