Spontaneous Parasitic

Bingyan Cao

Supervisor: Patrick Macasaet

Increasing density has forced new vertical living structures into micro-plots that result in sky-high facades with no distinction between one and another, which also results in lack of social cohesion and interaction because vibrant public life does not engage in section, but still on the one ground plane.

In Porosity philosophy, promoted by Richard Goodwin, he believed urban porosity is a dissolution of closed architecture and provokes the connection between urban structures. In architectural expression, he promotes a parasitic strategy in sky-high facades. Public domain act like parasitic intervening and shifting in between solid private.

“The proliferation of human activity in our cities has given rise to the nature of cities as a place of exchange and surplus, a place of urban generosity.”

A new mechanism of public field addresses urban density with communities in the sky through producing a Spontaneous Parasitic intervention in sectional quality, that associated with micro-spontaneous human occupation and fragmental public amenities, in vertical façade to integrate a series living skyscraper. Attempting to balance rational efficiency of modern high-rise and the social intensity of public life, and also be generous with diversity and randomness by gradational sequence, which has a potential of inclusive urbanism approaching in vertical growth era.

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