Addressing the locality of pollution within our built environment, The Anthropogenic Leech is a decentralised community hub that converts carbon emissions into renewable energy. Employing a parasitic philosophy, the infrastructure attaches itself to energy-inefficient buildings throughout the city, exploiting its resources systemically as a holistic system, providing beyond the boundaries it serves.

Examining cities as ecosystems and buildings as organisms, characteristics of parasitism are interpreted architecturally as design principles that would enable circulative metabolism within cities. Choosing Hong Kong as the testbed, GIS data is used extensively to pinpoint the tumour within, deploying architectural parasites within regions showing the worst carbon emissions. By studying the site holistically with anthropogenic and climatic data, design strategies are determined that would allow the parasite to exploit anthropogenic emissions from its host without causing detrimental harm. Ultimately, the intervention is intended to be deployed globally, creating climate-resilient cities that would withstand the test of time.