There are two ways in which cities can emerge; the spontaneous, organic way (the medieval city) and the result of conscious planning in a regular symmetrical form. In Europe new additions to dense medieval cores were always regular. Clearly the two systems do not necessarily exist only in a singular form but they metamorphose. Hybrids of meshworks intervene. During the Fascist era of the 1930's several new towns were built in Italy and its colonies, in addition to all the renewal projects that were executed in the cities.
The studio looked at urban clustering and transformation as a mediation of different city models. A newly inserted hybrid space, at once local and global, big and small, public and private. A hybrid space resembles the behaviour and growth of organic structures. Organismic systems can behave with morphological plasticity, physiological adaptability, behavioral flexibility, intelligent choice and guidance from tradition.