This project makes the assumption that the SEZ is a perverse concept which incorrectly asserts a supremacy of the non-place over the existing city at a cultural level. A trade off that local societies are naturally hesitant to accept thus predetermining a proximal condition of incompatible spatial conditions, a juxtaposition of world views. We envision a hybridization of these spatial conditions as a path toward integration. An increase in juxtapositions both physical and social that instead of attempting to mitigate or seek neutrality proposes a deeper and more convoluted confrontation. This hybridization serves two functions. Spatially it breaks up the monolithic zoning which re-introduces the life blood of the existing place, no longer nearby, but actually within. Socially it serves to facilitate a validity between all world views. By increasing the density of juxtapositions of local and exterior values, religion, public and private space.

Any mono-culture exposed to another mono-culture will invariably be a confrontation. No single identity has ever existed and the roots (proven through our artifact research and in attempting to develop qualities through which to arithmetically produce a spatial hybridization), of any recognizable identity now comes from the mitosis of a multiplicity of others. We can and therefor assert that this juxtaposition through hybridization generates
a recognizably different alternative to the SEZ. Over time resulting in Colombo Port City and the greater Colombo area achieving contextually individuality as a spatial and economic apparatus. Certainly imperfect, but a somewhere that doesn’t have to erase itself to participate in the global culture and economy.