Mixed-use housing development next to the Millennium Stadium and Cardiff Central station. At the junction of Cardiff’s main transport links, this development creates a vibrant and sustainable artistic community and establishes an event place for artists to display their talents to a wide, varied and changing audience. The concept stems from an initial group study into efficient structures. We chose mushrooms because of their formal variation and adaptation to all sorts of landscapes and how we could emulate the play of light on the fins underneath. In order to understand their structural efficiency further, we parametrically modelled the organism which allowed us to create many variations using the same rules. We then digitally fabricated one instance using laser cutting. Critical post inhabitant studies of Nakagin Capsule Tower and Marina City projects highlighted previous errors in high capacity vertical accommodation. I aimed also to introduce green space to increase biodiversity and open the site to the river Taf alongside. images below