all(zone) - Urban Trend: Mixed-Use

100 Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab The investigation of Bangkok through the keyword ‘Mixed Use’ firstly sounded rather simple. However, the task turned to be quite complex since it is almost impossible to find anything ‘unmixed’ in the city. Exploring every level of our lives, we found that objects, activities, space, buildings, urban elements are mixing, blending, combining, superimposing in various scales. The mixture could be formed without any clear initiation of spatial configuration and grows naturally like a living organism. In some cases, the mixture is formed to push the boundary beyond an existing clearly defined situation or physical condition. Many cases, a situation is even designed with very loose framework to allow various activities. Almost nothing remains unmixed. Being too familiar and almost unaware of the extreme mixture we have been living in, we began to ask ‘why’ people (including us) would not mind of the situation that seems improper from modernist’s viewpoint, what is the aspec