The Jungle

An early studio project at the South China University of Technology (SCUT): The Jungle is a nine-class kindergarten imagined as organic space — a typology study of how young children might learn and live inside soft, cell-like rooms rather than rigid classrooms.

The forms came from two unlikely references. One was Kazuyo Sejima, whose architecture dissolves a building's hard edges into soft, continuous, almost weightless space. The other was Migi — the shape-shifting parasite from Parasyte — whose restless, organic morphology suggested rooms that could bend, merge, and reform around a child's movement.

The whole project was drawn by hand, in watercolor. The medium was part of the argument — loose and organic, letting the plan bleed and pool the way the spaces themselves were meant to.