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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.
Panarchistic Architecture: Building Wildland-Urban Interface Resilience to Wildfire through Design Thinking, Practice and Building Codes Modelled on Ecological Systems Theory
CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Chapter 1 : Introduction
Chapter 2 : Literature Review
2.1 Overview
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Key Influencers
2.4 Transdisciplinary Research
2.5 Panarchy, The Adaptive Cycle, and Resilience
2.6 Pandora and her Pyxis: Fragments of our Pyrophilic Past
2.7 A Jaguar, a Fire, a Theft: Americas Variations on the Origin of Fire
2.8 Hestia, Home, and Hearth: Architecture’s Pyrotechnical Origins
2.9 Walk like an Egyptian. Think Like a Mesopotamian
2.10 Evolution of Building Codes: From Ur to the Wildland Ur-ban Interface
2.11 Coding Cornu Copiae: From Cuneiform to Chromosomes
2.12 Wildland Fire Policy in Précis
2.13 Spatiotemporally Adaptive Architectures
2.14 Summary
Chapter 3 : Method
3.1 Overview
3.2 Data Assembly, Analysis, and Synthesis
3.3 Case Studies: Past, Present, and Possible Future
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 : General Pyro-morphology: Spatiotemporal Dimensions of Fire at the Scale of Planet, Landscape and Species
4.1 Overview
4.1.1 On Origin of Fire and Fire-Adapted Species
4.1.2 Atoms of Fire: An Abiotic Alchemist
4.1.3 Igne Natura Renovatur Integra [through fire, nature is reborn]
4.1.4 Fire as Autopoietic Process: Feedback and Fluctuation in Fire Frameworks
4.1.5 Herding Biochemical Cats: Quantifying the Qualitative Properties of Fire
4.2 Overview
4.2.1 Fire Regimes: Biomes as Biotic and Abiotic Assemblages
4.2.2 Forests: Biogeographic Realms of Fire Regimes
4.2.3 Forests and Fire Regimes of the United States
4.2.4 Fire Regime Biotic Schemata
4.2.5 The Flaming Quartet: Four Types of Fire
4.2.6 Pyrophyta: Systema Naturae per ignem regnis
4.2.7 On the Tendency of Species to Form Resilience
4.2.8 Vitai Lampada Tradunt: Six Fire-Resilient Specimens
4.2.9 Parturition of a Pyroparadigm
4.3 Overview
4.3.1 Pyrotechnic Primate: A pyrophilic genus joins the phylogenetic tree of life
4.3.2 Promethean Mutations: Accidental Hominin Gene Editing
4.3.3 Summary
4.4.1 Case Study #1 Part 1: 1988
4.4.2 Case Study #2 Part 1: 2003
4.4.3 Case Study #3 Part 1: 2007
4.5 PyroFutures: Wildland Fire Trajectories
4.5.1 Overview
4.5.2 Passing between the two fires: From Fossilised to Future Fire Forecasts
4.5.3 Pandora’s Earth Systems Pyxis
4.5.4 Future Firescape: Worldwide
4.5.5 Future Firescape: Western United States
4.7 Homo Ignis
Chapter 5 : Fire Triangulation: Past meets Present meets Future Case Study
5.1 Overview
5.1.1 The Great Fire Triangle: Urban Environment meets Natural Forces
5.1.2 An Anthropogenic Fire Regime: Mineral-based Architectures
5.1.3 Entering the Eye of a Thomian Urban Storm: Systems and the City
5.1.4 Back to the Forest: Biomass Buildings are Reborn
5.1.5 Accidental Acts of Alchemy: Architectural Accelerant Assemblies
5.1.6 The Topography of Towering Infernos: Lessons from the Wildland
5.1.7 Between a Rock and a Fiery Place: Navigating an Urban Fire Storm
5.1.8 Urban Forest Mosaics: Rossi, Rowe, Koetter et al meet Fire Ecology
5.1.9 Hot Stuff: Cedrician Thinking in the 21st Century City
5.1.10 An Architecture for all Ages: Evolution meets Cyclic Theories
5.1.11 Cyclic Scenario: Pyrotechnically Purging Pandemics
5.1.12 Summary
Chapter 6 : Towards a Systemic Integration of Fire and Architecture at the Wildland Urban Interface
6.1 Overview
6.1.2 Of Thunder Birds and Beings: Systemic Architectures Most Ancient
6.1.3 From Wickiup to the Wildland Urban Interface
6.1.4 On the Edge: Life at The Wildland Urban Interface
6.1.5 An Ecologically Antagonistic Architectural Monoculture
6.1.6 Architectural Oblivion: Design Briefs of Denial
6.1.7 Building Firewalls and Disciplinary Bridges
6.1.8 Debris Flows and Human Detritus: Wildfires’ Hydrological Footprint
6.1.9.1 Costing the Earth: Insurance at the Wildland Urban Interface
6.1.9.2 Chickens and Cosmological Eggs: Critique vs. Cliché
6.1.9.3 Epochal Architectural Shift
6.2 Overview: Wildfire at the WUI
6.2.1 Case Study #1 Part 2: 1988
6.2.2 Case Study #2 Part 2: 2003
6.2.3 Case Study #3 Part 2: 2007
6.3 Ascent from Pyriphlegethon
6.3.1 Overview
6.3.2 Wildland Urban Interface Forecasts to 2100 and beyond
6.3.3 Psychological [Wildland Urban Interface] Types
6.3.4 Three Little Pigs and a Big Bad Wolf: Purging Pyrophobia
6.3.5 Book Burning: Arming Against the Arsonists of Alexandria
6.3.6 Pot Plant on Plinths and Other Acts of Ecological Reductionism
6.3.7 Summary
6.4 Liber Futuro Ignium [Book of Future Fires]
6.4.1 Overview
6.4.2 Tria juncta in uno: A Pyrosystemic Synthesis
6.4.3 PANdorian Theory
6.4.4 Material Metamorphoses and The Circle of Variability
6.4.5 Branches in Time: Morphological Data & Evolutionary Hardware
6.4.6 Lebbeus’ Legacy: Seeing the Woods for the Trees
6.4.7 Pyro-urban Secession and a Phenomenological Paradox
6.4.8 Pyro-pangenesis: The Variation of Fire at the Wildland Urban Interface
6.4.9 Tritogenian Philosophy: A triangulation of cyclic elements
6.5 Summary: Principles of Pyro-relativity: A tri-part paradigm in précis
Codification for Eternal States of Flow, Flux, and Fire
7.1 Overview
7.1.1 Macrocosms in Microcosms: Towards Trichotomous Perspectives
7.1.2 Panoptical Permutations: From Computing to Permuting
7.1.3 Pangenical Materiality: Living in a Cyclically Material World
7.1.4 Smoke Signals: Pyrophilic Sensing, Signalling and Symbiogenesis
7.1.5: Summary: Pyropangenical Codes and Codification
7.2 Overview: PyroTriptych [Three Firescape Scenarios] 2030
7.2.1 Case Study #1 Part 3: Speculative Scenario: Pyro-Evaders
7.2.2 Case Study #2 Part 3: Speculative Scenario: Pyro-Endurers
7.2.3 Case Study #3 Part 3: Speculative Scenario: Pyro-Resistors
7.3 Overview: A Pyrophilic Flash Fiction Trilogy 2030
7.3.1 Case Study #1 Part 4: Flash Fiction: Pyro-Evaders
7.3.2 Case Study #2 Part 4: Flash Fiction: Pyro-Endurers
7.3.3 Case Study #3 Part 4: Flash Fiction: Pyro-Resistors
7.4 Summary: Panthology: A Panarchistic Anthology 2030
Chapter 8 : The Panarchic Codex
8.1 Overview
8.1.1 Case Study #1 Part 5: WUI Building Codes
8.1.2 Case Study #2 Part 5: WUI Building Codes
8.1.3 Case Study #3 Part 5: WUI Building Codes
Chapter 9 : Conclusions
9.1 Overview
9.2 A Pyric Architectural Transition: Summary
9.3 A Pan-archic Perspective: Summary
9.4 Particulars of the Paradigm
9.5 Particulars of a Pan-Perspective
9.6 Beyond Panarchistic Parameters
9.7 Potentialities of Panarchistic Architecture
9.8 No Panacea
9.9 Pânadigm: where missing middles meet
Select Figures
References
Appendix
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