ARCHITECTURAL MIGRATION

Migration is omnipresent. People are migration around the globe as much as never before. Migration influences an infinite number of disciplines, but what could Migration do to Architecture? How could it influence and enrich Architecture?

We are living in the age of migration. People are moving around the globe as much as never before in modern times. Through these migrant flows the cultural backgrounds also travel to the new homeland. They influence their new home country, with their knowledge, their culture, their traditions, their habits. People have to leave their architectural heritage behind, because it is not possible for them to import this fixed, rigid, settled part of them to another country. What if this were possible? Would it be possible to develop architecture through foreign influences, like it is possible with other disciplines? If it were possible to transport vernacular architecture to a different context further away and very different from the original one? What influence would it have on the local architecture? To what point can it influence or change it and what architectural hybrids can arise or occur from it? Foreign, traditional, exotic architectural heritage, can enrich our established Western European architecture for example in the field of housing and residential building. Especially in this field it is extremely important to obtain a diverse amount of various architectural living situations for a lot of different inhabitants. The structure of the population is becoming more diverse not only by migration but also because of the high variety of different lifestyles that have developed. That is why an extension of our current living typologies is necessary. Through architectural migration it would be possible to offer more than just different sizes of one same apartment. Multiple typologies, that are based on foreign, traditional plans could produce an offer that could satisfy the needs of the diverse and heterogeneous society that we live in nowadays. It would be a long process, that could offer many new possibilities to architecture. The resulting hybrids would constantly continue to develop and with time produce a vast variety in architecture.