Instituto de Ciencias de la Construcción Eduardo Torroja Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Abstract
SPACE AND STRUCTURE: THE DOUBLE REGISTER OF CONTEMPORARY MULTIFUNCTIONAL
HOUSING DESIGN
The residential architecture of recent years has introduced an advanced experimentation around typological
hybridization: in many recent European examples this line of research has focused in the assembly of different
residential typologies - partly inherited from tradition - innervated by distribution systems revisited and often
associated with alternative use (commercial, services, public spaces).
The double register that follows from the coexistence of the different functions and their assembly provides
the ability to design innovative spatial articulations, explained by different scales, where the principle of
repetition of the single dwelling is opposed to the specific and exceptional dimensions of public spaces.
The same rule of assembly the functions - for overlay, juxtaposition, sequence or intersection - gives rise to
an interesting challenge both from the architectural point of view, both from the constructive structure, an
organism that ca
