Order and chaos Circumstances and opportunities in public architecture

Contemporary urban layout is the summary of the endless collection of conditions and circumstances which have occurred throughout history. Talking about city implies accepting its artificiality and understanding its metabolism in its chaotic logic of obsolescence and fertilization. Architecture as a discipline has to be aware of the urban phenomenological reality to place itself within its limits. The situation of the discipline towards the city appears untenable. The current architecture procedure does not seem to answer properly to the real needs of the city, according to the current economic environment. This situation has led to the isolation of architecture, as a protective way of facing the future uncertainty. Furthermore, the programmatic isolation has led to a widespread inefficiency in many aspects of the city. In this case, the work is focused on the study of the public buildings. This paper presents a realistic procedure to face the chaos of the contemporary city and architecture. The proposal presented does try to promote the consideration of randomness and mutability as a main part of the discipline. Furthermore, it does try to handle the real needs of the urban phenomenology. This paper presents a framework to compress the urban programs. The objective is to relocate the urban flows of the public buildings to adequate the public building space to its real demand. The idea is to generate undefined limits to the chaos. Consequently, architecture acts as an assistant promoting both programs' breeding and spatial ambivalence. This vision does lead to reformulate public typology in relation to the ambivalence of the contemporary experience.