Princeton Parasite

Wellness Center, Extension of Dillon Gym
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

The Princeton Parasite reinterprets the spatial rhythms and urban morphology of the university’s eighteenth-century campus to disorient users and re-center them, provoking new ways of inhabiting the gym and its surrounding spaces, at once alien and friendly; deeply other but provocatively human.

The project is an extension of Princeton University’s Dillon Gym that aims to integrate into it the emotional and intellectual aspects of wellness. Refusing easy separation of mind and body, it grows out of and into the gym, becoming inseparable from it. The Parasite has its genesis in the idea of an inhabitable light tube that illuminates the gym’s existing below-ground pool.