Symbiotic Architecture

Symbiotic architecture is a concept that aspires to create a self-sustaining habitation framework for our future cities based on a circular economic model. To meet the change to remote working in society, a new Co-Living planning model was designed using ma wan island in Hong Kong as its first test site, without the tight borders between distinct zones present in traditional models.

The city was developed utilizing an agent-based modelling system inspired by the natural development mechanisms of organisms such as physarum polycephalum, which react to data from current site analysis models and AI. The findings of the algorithm were analysed after optimization to determine appropriate zones for human settlement and a feasible connectivity network between these zones.

The goal of the concept was to create a city with few points of touch with the earth, resulting in a floating metropolis on lush vegetation cover. The city is built using an extensive template of materials derived from the waste collected from the surrounding area.

Micro algae bio- reactor façade panels fabricated using additive manufacturing techniques provide for the city's energy needs, forming a symbiotic link between carbon positive species like Humans and carbon negative species like algae.