Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms

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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