Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms

Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by devoply on Friday August 23, 2019 @01:57PM (#20780441)

We need to genetically engineer trees and the like to produce houses. We should be living with life rather than a cancer against it.

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by pushpop on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:11PM (#20780609)

I agree with you to an extent but genetically engineering life to suit us doesn’t strike me as any less cancerous.

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by natpalmer1776 on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:23PM (#20780780)

To provide what I feel is a more accurate analogy than the one given by GP:

We currently have a destructive parasitic relationship with our ecosystem in which we consume resources without replenishing them, whereas the goal GP described is to pursue a more symbiotic parasitic relationship in which we give back resources that allow for the continuation of the ecosystem, even if in an altered form.

Depending on your interpretation of 'symbiotic' the proposal by the GP may better be described as 'disadvantageous' as by engineering our environment we put it in a relatively inferior state compared to its' natural one.

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by transreal on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:42PM (#20781783)

For more on this topic, I can't recommend this book more highly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradle_to_Cradle:_Remaking_t...

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by sk5t on Saturday August 24, 2019 @12:30AM (#20785214)

> more symbiotic parasitic relationship

This may properly be called commensalism, if the benefitting species avoids harming its host.

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by sumitviii on Saturday August 24, 2019 @01:16AM (#20785380)

Imagine seeds that grow into a house. This is dream stuff!

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by user982 on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:27PM (#20780832)

We need to genetically engineer humans into forms that don't need houses anymore.

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by cwkoss on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:31PM (#20780889)

Alternate back lore for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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Re:Japanese architects who treated buildings like living org... by sansnomme on Friday August 23, 2019 @02:08PM (#20780576)

All for it if you can sterilize it and get rid of insects etc.

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