Tasked with investigating the industrial zone of Alcorcon, Spain; we looked for areas of interest where perhaps our interventions could yield the most interesting typologies. Instead we, gravitated to the areas of most disinterest. Empty, abandoned unoccupied lots, that represented not just gaps within the urban fabric but were somehow representative of lack of action, ability or imagination. We set ourselves the task of working within the largest and most problematic of these gaps.

We carried out a set of typological adjustments testing the malleability of the existing residential typologies and their capability to transform into complex typologies that could host programs such as housing or commerce. Repetition is a perhaps the binding essence of typology, it reinforces the structure of a family of types. We set about repeating what we have learnt from our test on existing typologies, putting to the test the reproducibility of the types we had created anew.

The question of type? Our operations of adjusting, repetition and subversion were a way for us to qualify how we create types.