by Stefano Serafini The biourban community is concerned about the spread of a new epidemic: the Biomarcophilia. It seems in fact that the revolutionary work by Marco Casagrande, European Prize for Architecture 2013 and vice-president of the International Society of Biourbanism, has a side-effect. Besides influencing an international community of designers while implementing the biourbanism theory […] read more
by Katherine Donaghy & Menno Cramer Paracity is the latest project by CURE, The Casagrande Laboratory Centre of Urban Research (CURE) a multi-disciplinary architectural, technical and engineering practice. CURE focuses on the development and research of large-scale biourban solutions, environmentalism and urban design in the post-industrial city. CURE combines and unravels traditional disciplines and guidelines […] read more
by Eric Hunting Paracity is a new project of Marco Casagrande which promises to be one of the first full scale demonstrations of a practical peer-to-peer urbanism. Taking advantage of a unique situation on the Danshui River Island in Taipei, Paracity explores a notion of positive urban parasitism, using a novel, freely adaptive, modular, volumetric […] read more