The shelter's are designed to attach to existing buildings above head height

KOZ Architects.

The author of the book "Architettura Parassita" (edizioni Quodlibet, Macerata 2008) summarises in this article the contents of her research. Sara Marini teaches at the IUAV University of Venice, at the University of Trieste and at the University of Camerino.

French architect Stéphane Malka’s ambitious project of grafting extensions, bow windows, balconies and loggias through a patented, sustainable plug-in system onto a poorly-performing 1970’s building in Paris is a model for today’s space-starved, high-density cities.

Parasite Architecture

Thomas Heatherwick has just completed work on two glasshouses for gin company Bombay Sapphire in Hampshire, England.

These buildings are parasitic in nature, they attach themselves on a "host" building, and suck the "life blood" the host. It taps into the host electricity, air conditioning, water, communication system, sewage systems. Its uses the hosts structural str…

Taking advantage of the stalled Filene’s construction site at Downtown Crossing, Eco‐Pod is a proposal to immediately stimulate the economy, and the ecology,...

Completed in 2011 in Moscow, Russia. Images by Peter Zaytsev . In the end of May, in the Russian capital, architectural biennale «АRCH Moscow» is traditionally held. za bor architects this year presented an...

FACADES MICRO ARCHITECTURES CREATING INDIVIDUALIZED LIVING SPACES IN URBAN CONTEXTS The “cabanon vertical” (Vertical Hut, South of France) is a multidisciplinary collective who conjuga…