Hybridization of housing system

The metropolis of Shanghai has seen a rapid changing process never seen in other country of the world. In the last thirty years, this city has been affected by a transformation in the architectural and social aspect, becoming the power of the moment. A changing happened not only in the city of Shanghai, but in the whole China, passing from a society based on villages and Chinese garden to the present, where the main aim is to build and provide houses for the population. Becoming more and more big city, it started from low-density and low-rise buildings to the high-rise and high-density ones. Also the rapid growing population lead to build in height instead of width. This work will discusses this architectural changing and the improving of housing standards as well as the recent society changing. I will start to talk about the housing evolution from the 1978s to the present divided into three important periods, from housing for workers, cause in that period the work force was essential, to housing for market and to improve year per year the quality of buildings. After that, analyzing the city and discovering his characteristics in architectural context, I noticed that with the decentralization process started some years ago, developers started to build all around the city center, in the suburban areas, to attract the people and to reduce the pressure caused by the constant population growing. Doing so, developers create several community enclosed in compound and called gated community and often away from commercial spaces, services and public transportation. All of this because developers are not constrain to provide any kind of services in the new residential development in suburban areas. For this reason, I focused my attention on this problem and talking about the hybrid’s conception (chapter 4), I would like to import in these suburban areas an idea related with the residential hybridization, to provide services open to the public, also in these districts and not only in the main cities. After analyzed four cases study that influenced the architectural approach in different historical periods and in different country of the world like US, France, Korea, and Beijing; I will try to propose a new residential development in a special areas that I am going to explain in the last chapter. Not a common residential development, but rather houses, offices, sport centers, collective centers, spaces for leisure, mixed together in a Hybrid building and lead the community to become self-sufficient and not only an object to fill with the population.