In both "Les Olympiades" in France and the shoe manufacturing industry in Elche, Spain have created hybridity by breaking down traditional European boundaries between "home" and "work."
In the former, the residential/commercial complex has been repurposed and blended to create a community that takes on characteristics of self-sufficiency -- homes, food markets, restaurants and artisan shops all reside within the structure.
In the latter, home space has been co-opted to allow housewives -- and even children -- to become part of the manufacturing process without leaving for a factory building... or being subject to regulation of working standards.
While these new arrangements provide an environment of opportunity for socially (and thus economically) disadvantaged individuals to find work and support their costs of living, they also serve to isolate and insulate those involved. The immigrants in "Les Olympiades" could conceivable live, eat, work and recreate in the building complex and never leave it for weeks, or longer. Likewise the clandestine nature of the shoe industry in Elche encourages the female workers to shut their homes away from view, and makes them subject to coersion from both landlords and the shoe industry.
Both situations have transposed features on the urban landscape that would normally be either dispersed or centrally located. In "Les Olympiades," all of the features of what would normally be an entire neighborhood have been condensed into a contiguous set of structures, making vertical an environment that must normally be traversed in the horizontal. Conversely, in Elche the traditional environment of industrial production -- the factory, usually a complex of centrally located buildings -- instead finds itself dispersed to encompass an entire neighborhood.
