”Parasitic” Shelter Design

 In Associate Professor Sharone Tomer's lab, students were tasked with designing a "parasitic" shelter that attaches to an existing perch in Allisonia. The shelter would offer hikers and trail users a place to pause, view the landscape, and sleep. The shelter must carry all of its structural load through the perch itself, contributing to the host without removing or relocating any part of it.

Working only with limited materials, wood and steel operating as "sticks and sheets", students had to design it for two strangers to share space, rest, and encounter the landscape in a new way while staying in conversation with their previous ROOF project on the site.