ABSTRACT
A metropolitan hybrid evolves from the conceptual programming group as an architectural intervention that occurs from the metropolitan condition of density and diversity beyond real estate market demands and commercialization. The metropolitan hybrid allows the evolution of the city as real estate speculation, changes in industry, changes in political power, and urban renewal have created abandoned or unfinished structures across cities worldwide. Polycentrality would also require conceptualization of metropolitan hybrids as urban systems. The metropolitan hybrid has the intent of intensifying polycentrality and to maintain a continuous urbanity. The skyscraper, being the quintessential metropolitan architectural typology, presents a great opportunity for exploring the microcosms in the field of adaptive reuse. The level of urbanity, the metropolis, with a population of 1,000,000 and over, starts generating the metropolitan hybrid. As an urban core, the metropolitan hybrid revisits the preoccupation of unrecognizable city patterns and urban growth.
