Parasitic Growth Forms

Zeta Kachri: ‘void exhibit(AAC), Arup’s Phase 2 Gallery, London, UK.

"Parasitic
 architecture
 allows
 the
 creation
 of
 flexible
 structures
 that
 feed
 off
 existing infrastructure
 offering
 solid
 answers
 to
 the
 problem
 of
 structural
 density
 of
 cities and
 the
 need
 of
 temporary
 accommodations.
 Additionally,
 modular
 systems potentially 
provide 
forms
 with
 great
 complexity 
out
 of
 simplicity. This
 project investigates
 the
 evolution
 of
 self‐sustained
 parasitic
 structures
 that evolve
 by
 creating
 aggregation
 forms
 well
 adapted
 to
 their
 hosts."







Evolo Project: Urban Parasite, by Paul Tse

http://www.evolo.us/architecture/urban-parasite-creates-new-types-of-habitation-for-seoul-paul-tse/

UNCAGED by dave BANTZ + cat PHAM 

Designed as a direct counter proposal to Renzo Piano’s New Whitney Museum “Box” this studio, run by Lise Anne Couture or Asymptote while visiting at SCIARC, encouraged students to explore the varied and diverse work of the America artists who may have their work displayed in the museum itself. Highlighting the struggle to reconcile to big box museum with more intricate, detailed, and formal architectural design approaches, the studio began with simple formal exercises meant to explore possible techniques for the dissolution and opening up of the traditional box museum with aperture, structural expression, and integration of color.

In particular “UNCAGED” draws from the work of artist and sculptor Matthew Ritchie. His use of color and explosive modular sculptures which tend to take over the museum space with reckless abandon and parasitic division. “UNCAGED” latches onto the site at the south end of the Highline (Diller + Scofidio + Renfro). The museum’s sprawling appendages are accessible from multiple points of entry; a move geared to intentionally dissolve the institutional grand museum entrance. The interior spaces work much like a three dimensional maze providing views from level to level, without necessarily illustrating a clear notion of how to get from one place to another. One may visit the museum several times always entering at a new level or walking a new path. The coloration and texture further alienate the museum from it’s dreary setting and punctuate the location and function as a commentary on the clean white modernist exterior of some other “New Museums” in New York City.