'The Curious Parasite' is a hostel for tourists who explore and romanticise the decaying manmade structures in Tskaltubo, Georgia. The programme utilises controlled weathering, combining new building spaces with the crumbling sanatorium they are entwined with.

Of the 700 visitors coming to Tskaltubo each year, most are urban explorers who often intrude into private areas and disrupt the lives of the locals for their personal benefit. The chosen site is a ruined, abandoned sanatorium as it serves as a place for intervention that does not disturb the people living in the area.

The building embraces the cyclical nature of urban explorers who casually damage when capturing the spaces they admire, which in turn attracts even more explorers. For them, the programme provides lodging and additional spaces for exploration that follow alternate rates of growth and decay as well as the retention of existing spaces with expedited weathering. It represents the parasitic relationship between ruin and urban explorer, and the belief of these explorers that structures lacking parts of themselves have a greater value than the whole.