7.2.3 Speculative Scenario 2030: Pyro-Resistors [San Diego County]

Though blackened, their furrowed bark-like exterior plating having dissipated the heat from a fast-moving wildfire, several structures stand tall atop still smouldering forest litter. Their flammable exterior parts self-pruned in the weeks prior to the onset of the wildfire season, their windows, doors, and other openings are still concealed behind smoke-activated fire-resistant coverings. Now a scene of serenity on the surface, structural plating systems are generating regrowth from within: By the arrival of the next wildfire season fresh ‘tissue’ will have resurfaced building exteriors, in much the same way as, over time, occurs in neighbouring Ponderosa pines.

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

Note that figures have been removed from the digital version hosted on this site, but are included in the PDFs available at the links above.

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.