YET Architecture
Parasite
Furniture Intervention — Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2024
Parasite — Mass-Customization
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About the Project
Parasite is a series of 3D-printed interventions that transform standardised IKEA furniture into custom objects, questioning mass production and copy-paste design.
The project was developed and exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2024 in Eindhoven.
To blur the lines between mass production and custom design.
To challenge the notion that mass-produced furniture is inherently generic and impersonal.
To transform mass-produced objects into unique and sustainable pieces through upcycling.
Concept
Furniture as a surface for intervention.
Working with existing furniture as a foundation, the project explores how standardised objects can become vehicles for personal expression. Each piece is redesigned around a specific IKEA base, with a 3D-printed component that alters the form, adds new spatial qualities, or introduces a dialogue between the industrial and the handmade.
Process
Each intervention begins with an existing piece of IKEA furniture and a custom 3D-printed component designed to transform it. The component does not replace the original — it inhabits it, altering its form and function while preserving the familiar base. The result sits between mass production and craft, between the generic and the particular.
[ Exhibition ]
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