7.2.1 Speculative Scenario 2030: Pyro-Evaders [Yellowstone National Park]

Beneath the ashes of architectures that were incinerated by an inferno of such intensity that it simultaneously combusted swathes of Lodgepole pine stands, and residential and commercial buildings alike, the seeds of material renewal have awoken. Having sensed the inferno’s timing, duration, intensity, and several other fire metrics, thereon sequenced and stored the data, ‘architectural seeds’ are configuring blueprints and other design specifications. Within days, the shoots of new buildings will rise from the forest floor. Like their biological equivalent, these self-organising architectures are endowed with means of monitoring both ground and surface conditions, thus able to adapt their materiality and wider physicality as they grow.

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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.