Ancient Modern Hybrid Buildings

Stone, among the world’s oldest building materials are now often only seen at historical remains of ancient buildings, especially in its raw form.

These building materials are extremely durable, proven from the fact that these ancient structures could withstand thousands of years of environmental and weather conditioning and impact.

Even nowadays you dont see raw bricks (its younger cousin) forming a building’s facade in modern cities, as now cement and concrete has replaced this role, with even modern materials like glass, composites and solar panels are quick coming into mainstream.

Such worn out, washed and crude form of material are now appreciated as art pieces and a distinct style in architectural and interior design practices.

As such creative architects have started to think of ways to breathe new life into these ancient structures or rather materials.

One of such approach is to partially convert old and ancient buildings into very modern looking spaces...by both restructuring part of these buildings and replacing or amending the use of materials like glass, metal and composites.

The resulting outcome? A hybrid structure that embodies both an ancient outlook and a modern touch to it! Here is a concept rendering of it, giving you an impression of how far architects can take this approach.

One may find quite a number of these hybrid buildings spread all over Europe, where old buildings are not demolished and removed but refurbished internally or externally to modern shops and churches.

Its quite a unique scene as you won’t find much of these hybrids in Asian countries. Perhaps someone should start converting those classical looking structures over at rural towns of China and Japan!?

Lets take a look at a real example.