Architectural Hybridization

United Nations has projected that the current world population of 7.3 Billion People is expected to increase and reach 9.7 Billion by the year 2050, this draft increase in the population will lead to more consumption of resources as well as create immense land pressure. Charles Darwin has suggested that “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change” Could this land pressure be controlled by re-thinking the existing building typologies ? Hybrid infrastructure could be another key innovation to control the expansion of cities, the idea is not to design more but rather to re-think the current process of infrastructure design to make it more efficient. Is it possible to hybridize ‘the elements of space making’ to create spatial hybrids. Elements that serve multiple purposes behaving in duality. Will the hybridization of these ‘spatial elements’ result in hybridization of building types eventually leading to an evolved hybrid building typology which could reduce land pressure as well as expand the existing vocabulary of the built environment. The research focuses on identifying this language of architecture and then hybridizing it to evolve the built environment by demonstrating a case of a hybrid of a bridge (infra structural element for movement) and a cultural center (infra structural element of habitation) and hence proposes an ‘Inhabitable Bridge’ in the east of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The hybridization of these elements could also lead to questioning ‘the way of looking at things” .For instance, a staircase is always perceived as a means to go from one level to another. This creates a construct in the designers head and limits its perception as a transition element. This new architectural language could forces users to experience and question there pre-conceived constructs by generating arguments within a persons mind eventually questioning ‘types’ and ‘typologies’ in design.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technology | Sustainable Desig