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30 Parasitic Architecture Projects by Designers

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Κωνσταντινος

The " Spine "

This project reimagines transportation infrastructure as a continuous living system, where movement, dwelling, and landscape merge into a single spatial experience. Rather than connecting destinations, it creates new ways of inhabiting the journey itself.

Thanos

PLUG-IN HOSTEL

THE WHOLE BUILDING IS ‘‘LOOKED AFTER’’ BY THE AI THAT IS INTEGRATED WITHIN EACH ROOM AND PUBLIC AMENITIES, COLLECTING DATA, PROCESSING AND SUGGESTING NEW ACTIVITIES AND SPACES THAT COULD HELP WITH THE INTEGRATION OF THE NEW-COMERS + CREATE A SELF SUSTAINED ENVIRONMENT

Rowan

Capturing the Ephemeral

This project is considered the nation's first innovative art destination dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology. The proposed design is where curiosity seekers of all age go to experience creative innovation without limits, by being a primer destination, both online and offline, for genre pushing technology driven art.

Melisa and Musa

Architecture Of Time

the goal of the project: It has been to offer a new building system that does not ignore the development of technology and can keep up with the development and prevent memory destruction.

Saheel

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PULIYA

Puilya explores possibilities of parasitic approach to manifestations of public life in dense congested urban cores like the city of chandrapur. It perceives transit infrastructure lile bridges as sites for diverse public engagements, to enhance livability of these areas with a more inclusive len.

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.

Muny

Bamboo Children's Pavilion

Located in the core urban center of Paris, the Bamboo Children’s pavilion is located on top of an elevated concrete slab called “Olympiades”, where residential, commercial, as well as many educational functions can be found. This small parasitic structure aims at investing the empty spaces on top of this elevated slab, and to create gathering spaces for kids

João Pedro

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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.

Giovanna and 3 others

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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.

Magdalena

paraVIEW

Due to a fast growth of the cities it is impossible to keep up with strategies and projects rearranging the urban fabric. With help come the inhabitants, who once inspired could change their local communities and spaces, being the impulse of the chain reaction leading to cities open to parasitic solutions.

Yahweh and Hajara

P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E

17 Ning Po Street, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

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