Utopian Fragment
The project explores a system that grows across and around existing urban structures, transforming them into dynamic, inclusive habitats.
Toronto’s growing vacancy crisis and housing shortage inspired this adaptive modular parasitic system. Initiated from vacant office spaces, the system progressively expands along building exteriors, forming a responsive new urban layer. A catalog of modular components including housing, public space, commerce, and infrastructure, provides the building blocks for aggregation. Growth paths are informed by bio-inspired algorithms, while rule-driven parametric logic generates the spatial deployment of modules across varying architectural contexts. Through this approach, the project envisions a scalable strategy for bringing new life and social value to underused parts of the city and fostering inclusive urban ecosystems.
