The Parasite
This communal housing project, inspired by Archigram’s A Walking City, investigates what it means to inhabit an explosive, ever-shifting urban environment. The proposal, titled The Parasite, imagines a living system where residents’ lives begin to intersect, overlap, and merge—reflecting the fluid relationships that define dense communal living.
The project unfolds through three primary explorations: the form-generation process, the functional variation of the tubular structures that compose the building, and the resulting interior spatial conditions. Each tube adapts to a specific programmatic need, creating a network of differentiated yet interconnected spaces that redefine how individuals live collectively under one adaptive framework.
The section shows how the private unite tubes intersect together to create the larger communal space.
The section shows the relationship between the singular tubes which are for private spaces, and how they intersect towards the left side of the building to create a larger communal space.
Toothpick shadows are casted on a wall, their images are collaged together and the lines are traced, a new form starts to emerge from the traces.
The experimental drawing guided the form of the building by highlighting how the lines cluster together to create a larger space, just as the private tubes cluster together to create the communal space.
Tubes are placed normal to the surface of the shell, the tubes are modified by changing scale and rotation, then units are multiplied and clustered.
The communal space of the building is very open to the outer shell of the building, as the different tubes intersect, they are hollowed out to create a large open space which is used for the shared kitchen and living space. The private units, on the other hand, are intimate as they are occupying a single tube rather than a cluster of many.
The wallpaper is a combination of a deconstructed section of the building and an early sketch of the tubes. The grid contradicts the lack of order that the building has, while also emphasizing it by the wallpaper panels’ unaligned connections.