Parasitic Architecture 2020

Challenge to resolve the space crisis in urban cities

Worldwide

Brief Grants Schedule Awards & Fees Jurors Partners Discussion Entries (29)Leaderboard Rules & Guidelines

Winner

1 Entry

Chenjie

The Death and Life of Water

In response to severe water issues in Jaipur, India, this project envisions an alternative way to manage the whole water life-cycle including water supply, use, disposal and rainwater harvesting, through water infrastructures as parasites, which meanwhile provide high quality of public space and educate the public through giving visibility to water process.

Runner-up

1 Entry

Carmen and 2 others

FreshMart

Welcome to the FreshMart Parasite! Our parasite is a communal kitchen and food garden situated over a FamilyMart convenience store in Tokyo. It engages with the overlapping issues of the loneliness epidemic, threatened urban agriculture, and the anxieties of Japan’s work culture by creating a space that allows people from diverse demographic to come together

Honorable Mention

5 Entries

Matt

URBAN CUPOLA

The idea of this project is to provide a safer and cleaner environment for merchants to dry and store their dry seafood, while also enhancing the rooftop experience for local residents by providing places to rest and gardening.

YIHAN and 2 others

VAGARIES OF LIFE

The 'Parasite and Host' relationship between an inserted urban sanctuary and a typical public housing 'podium + tower block' typology in Singapore. A tropical urban living room providing urban fabric of life that favors interaction in the community, which enables deep dive into collective community values, emotion and spirit of life.

ismail

VERANDAH EXTENDS

Verandah Extends an urban intervention proposal that re-branding the icon of Medan Pasar, Kuala Lumpur. It’s translated as a seamless climbable verandah-way structure that parasite to the existing host of Medan Pasar’s Clock-tower that serves the function for the social-cultural activities to resolve the crisis of lack of space in the dense urban context.

Valentina and 2 others

140

Urban Creeper

Above all, the project seeks to offer the population a democratic right to use the open space, enjoy the landscape, reconnect with nature and strengthen the community's social fabric, which in the view of the authors is the recipe for a better world.

Pablo

The panels of perception

each human being lives a unique perception, based on the limits of time and space a reality made up of objective and sensitive observations wich allows us to build a naration of reality from our own consciousness Project made by Pablo Espinoza Francisca Moya Bruno Ramirez teachers Fernando Carvajal Tadea de Ipiña

People's Choice Award

2 Entries

Asli Zeynep and 3 others

401

Holding onto the City

Holding onto the City aims to offer a unique life style for free spirit people, by parasiting the Hong Kong city with a new understanding of public space that is welcoming every citizen equally including the street sleepers.

João Pedro

396

THE CAPSULE

The CAPSULE was thought as a small structure with big functions, such as: the ability to encourage blood donation, a way of making the donation process more comfortable and inviting and a possibility to dismantle the negative idea of parasitic architecture, stimulating future developments in this growing area.

Editor's Choice

6 Entries

Gracia

Shanghai Street Imagined

In the middle of the busy Mong Kok area sits a cluster of newly revitalized Hong Kong tenement buildings from the 1920s. Our team explores this site on how a small-scaled parasitic architecture affects the appearance and program of a large-scaled building while maintaing its original features.

Ruth

Parasitic Architecture

Urban Filter Manila is all about climate; helping to solve problems of smog, CO2, heat and pollution. Three different types of filtering parasites dock to different traffic-hub-hosts. The aim is to make transfering, waiting and walking in highly frequented and thereby polluted spaces enjoyable and healthy, besides positively affecting the urban climate.

Caroline

Clip-on houses

Minimal housing for application to bridges aiming to take advantage of old insutrial elements. By building around the bridge the possibility of passage under the bridge is kept, whilst a new public environment on the bridge is created.

Studio Projetos and Larissa

108

Garoa

A bridge has the function of connecting paths, traversing the city. Our architecture, starting with the premise of social changes, walks through a dense center, permeating the urban mesh, bringing a new home for the ones in need, becoming the parasite that adapts and allows changes.

Teodor and 2 others

St. James Town Hub

This parasite is set in the St. James Town community in Toronto, Canada, a 1970s slab-tower development. The repeatable design seeks to address the lack of shared public spaces in the community and proposes a module capable of supporting diverse programs.

Giovanna and 3 others

266

despacio

Despacio is a space thought to offer a decompression and deceleration atmosphere to its users. The parasite, shaped like a donut, stands in one of the pillars of the Parque Berrío Station, located right in the center of Medellín, Colombia.

Shortlisted

14 Entries

Grace

URBAN FILTER

A new center for the exploration and education of the vital resource that is all around us.

Rafael and Otavio

COTIDIANO : A Brief Urban Remedy

In implementing large urban infrastructures, the quality of the local scale can be lost, residual spaces are left behind with no solution. How can a parasitic architecture use its host to re-articulate the urban landscape prioritizing the pedestrian?

Iftiker and 5 others

Parasite

The Host in the site already making many trouble due to it's construction and the Parasite helping the public to make the host more Variable for use.

Chi

Live Towards The River

This project aims to reorganize urban context towards the river through parasitical toolkits and connect high denstity neighbourhoods with public space and necessary facilities.

Afrida Afroz

PARASITE IN THE URBAN VOID

This parasite installs itself in the underused space below a flyover, uses the flyover's structure to support itself, and serves as a public facility that takes on the social issues of public urination and noise pollution that pervade the city streets in Dhaka.