7.2.2 Speculative Scenario 2030: Pyro-Endurers [San Diego County]

Data pulsating between synthetic biological nodes, belowground sensing, processing, and storage networks are exchanging the metrics that were captured from the latest of several recent wildfires. Only marginally more severe than its immediate predecessors, while the passing of the wildfire has triggered architectural cloning processes, its variances are genetically recorded, as are any emerging patterns and trends that may have a bearing upon medium-to-long range material, structural, and other design, construction, and maintenance specifications. Thanks to their array of low-to-mixed fire severity defences, the majority of residential and commercial buildings, like the Californian Black oaks about them, are still standing, whereas they lost are in the process of being replaced with self-generating replicas.

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The thesis is also available in PDF format, downloadable in several parts on Academia and Researchgate.

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Citation: Sterry, M. L., (2018) Panarchistic Architecture: Building Wildland-Urban Interface Resilience to Wildfire through Design Thinking, Practice and Building Codes Modelled on Ecological Systems Theory. PhD Thesis, Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research [AVATAR] group, University of Greenwich, London.