Architecture

The Five Scales

The Living Architecture Lab works at five simultaneous scales. They are not phases. They are not sequential. The garage lab experiments at the centimeter scale and the orbital concepts at the planetary scale coexist, because they are the same physics at different magnitudes.

A myceliated brick is the seed; a structure is the brick fused with others; an organism is the structure walking; a territory is the organism geographic; the planet is the territory orbital. Each scale carries the scale below it as a possibility, and is carried by the scale above it as a context.

Why five

Five scales because that is the resolution at which the lab's actual work operates. The brick scale is the smallest unit of buildable life. The planetary scale is the largest unit of imaginable architecture. Between those two is the work.

See also: the five founding principles that guide the lab's work at every scale, and the project gallery of concrete artifacts grouped by scale.