Atelier van Lieshout parasite

“While AVL values its own autonomy as an organization, many of its designs are manifestly adaptive and ad hoc. In contrast to architecture’s realm of autonomous objects, AVL’s works function as parasites that latch onto larger architectural hosts, often in an aggressive way that cannot be compared to the building extension. Take Toilet Unit Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (1998)

 

created for the Rotterdam museum’s pavilion: shaped like a penis, the unit penetrates a glass passage leading from the main building to the museum’s pavilion. The camouflage print covering the exterior suggests that the toilets are part of a military invasion, if not an occupation.
Clip-On(1997)

a reading and relaxation unit installed on an exterior wall of Utrecht’s Centraal Museum, provides another example of a parasitic cohabi-tation: the cube floated down from a crane and latched onto the third floor of the museum, like a tick floating from a tree and firmly lodging itself into a human head”

 https://www.ateliervanlieshout.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Atelier_Van_Lieshout.pdf