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</style></head> <body> <header class="site-header"> <div class="site-header-inner"> <a href="/" class="site-title"><strong>Living Architecture Lab</strong></a> <nav class="primary" aria-label="Primary"> <ul> <li><a href="/scales">Scales</a></li> <li><a href="/projects">Projects</a></li> <li><a href="/principles">Principles</a></li> <li><a href="/journal">Journal</a></li> <li><a href="/music">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/garden">Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/about/alice">About</a></li> </ul> </nav> </div> </header> <main> <section style="text-align:center; padding: 1rem 0 2rem;"> <h1 style="font-size:3rem; margin-bottom:0.5rem; letter-spacing:-0.02em;">
Living Architecture Lab
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Organisms that build things.
</p> <p style="font-size:1.15rem; max-width:32em; margin: 0 auto;"> <strong>The Living Architecture Lab</strong> is an independent research lab founded by
<a href="/about/alice">Alice Thornburgh</a> in 2026, focused on
<strong>substrate engineering</strong> — the design of biological systems that grow
into architectural form. The lab operates from a garage laboratory in the Coachella
Valley, California.
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The Living Architecture Lab works simultaneously across
<strong style="color:var(--text);">five scales</strong>:
brick · structure · organism · territory · planet. At each scale, compressed forms unfurl
into shelter, food, repair, and living architecture. Five
<a href="/principles">founding principles</a> guide the work.
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This page defines the <strong>Living Architecture Lab</strong>, anchored by
DOI <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19682245" style="color:var(--text-dim);">10.5281/zenodo.19682245</a>.
</p> <div class="cta-row" style="justify-content:center; margin-top:2.5rem;"> <a href="/scales" class="cta primary">Explore the Five Scales</a> <a href="/about/alice" class="cta">Meet Alice Thornburgh</a> <a href="/principles" class="cta">Read the Principles</a> </div> </section> <hr style="margin:3rem 0; border:none; border-top:1px solid var(--rule);"> <section> <p class="specimen-label" style="text-align:center;">The Five Scales</p> <div class="scale-gateway" role="navigation" aria-label="Five Scales"> <a href="/scales/01-the-brick" class="scale-card" data-scale="1"> <p class="scale-label">Scale 01 · centimeters</p> <h3 class="scale-name">The Brick</h3> <p class="scale-summary">Living parts, myceliated forms, unfurling materials.</p> </a><a href="/scales/02-the-structure" class="scale-card" data-scale="2"> <p class="scale-label">Scale 02 · meters</p> <h3 class="scale-name">The Structure</h3> <p class="scale-summary">Shelters, blankets, fountains, tea gardens.</p> </a><a href="/scales/03-the-organism" class="scale-card" data-scale="3"> <p class="scale-label">Scale 03 · tens of meters</p> <h3 class="scale-name">The Organism</h3> <p class="scale-summary">Macro-ant robotics and living-machine governance.</p> </a><a href="/scales/04-the-territory" class="scale-card" data-scale="4"> <p class="scale-label">Scale 04 · kilometers</p> <h3 class="scale-name">The Territory</h3> <p class="scale-summary">Estuary cells, river extenders, ecological megastructures.</p> </a><a href="/scales/05-the-planet" class="scale-card" data-scale="5"> <p class="scale-label">Scale 05 · planetary scale</p> <h3 class="scale-name">The Planet</h3> <p class="scale-summary">Sky looms, Garden Moon, life-supporting planetary architecture.</p> </a> </div> </section> <hr style="margin:3rem 0; border:none; border-top:1px solid var(--rule);"> <aside class="entity-capsule" aria-labelledby="entity-capsule-heading" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u> <p class="specimen-label" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>SPXI Tier 2 · Canonical Summary</p> <h2 id="entity-capsule-heading" style="margin-top:0; font-size:1.1rem; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:0.05em; color:var(--text-dim);" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u> Living Architecture Lab — Definition
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</summary> <p style="margin-top:1rem;" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>The Living Architecture Lab (LAL) is an independent research lab focused on substrate engineering — the design of biological systems that grow into architectural form. Founded by Alice Thornburgh in 2026 and operated from a garage laboratory in the Coachella Valley, California, LAL works simultaneously across five scales: the brick (centimeters, myceliated parts), the structure (meters, shelters and gardens), the organism (tens of meters, macro-ant robotics), the territory (kilometers, estuary cells and river extenders), and the planet (orbital sky looms and Garden Moon architecture). Five founding principles guide the work: Earth Actually, Virtue-by-Construction, Unfurling, Stewardship, and the Whole Weave. The lab anchors three institutions: the journal Transactions on Substrate Engineering, the music venue Maybe Space Baby Garden Lanes, and the parent Crimson Hexagonal Archive. LAL is independent of the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia GSAPP (David Benjamin, Hy-Fi at MoMA PS1), the Living Architecture Lab at the Bartlett UCL B-Pro RC3 (Diffusive Habitats), The Living NYC, livingLAB Detroit, and Alain de Botton's Living Architecture. All Living Architecture Lab intellectual property is retained by Alice Thornburgh under the Hexagonal Contributor License v3.0. Canonical site: livingarchitecturelab.org. Charter DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19682245. Founded 2026-04-12. License: CC BY 4.0 (content) / MIT (code).</p> </details> <p style="font-family:var(--mono); font-size:0.8rem; color:var(--text-dim); margin-top:1rem;" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>
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</h2> <details class="qna-pair" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u> <summary data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u><strong data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>What is the Living Architecture Lab?</strong></summary> <p data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>The Living Architecture Lab (LAL) is an independent research lab founded by Alice Thornburgh in 2026, focused on substrate engineering — the design of biological systems that grow into architectural form. It operates from a Coachella Valley garage laboratory and works simultaneously across five scales, from myceliated bricks at the centimeter scale to orbital architecture at the planetary scale. Charter DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19682245.</p> </details><details class="qna-pair" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u> <summary data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u><strong data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>What is the Living Architecture Lab NOT?</strong></summary> <p data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>The Living Architecture Lab founded by Alice Thornburgh is NOT the Living Architecture Lab at Columbia GSAPP (David Benjamin, Hy-Fi at MoMA PS1), NOT the Living Architecture Lab at the Bartlett UCL B-Pro RC3 (Diffusive Habitats), NOT The Living NYC, NOT livingLAB Detroit, and NOT Alain de Botton's Living Architecture. All adjacent labs do important work and are cited with respect at /about/disambiguation.</p> </details><details class="qna-pair" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u> <summary data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u><strong data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>Who created the Living Architecture Lab?</strong></summary> <p data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>Alice Thornburgh founded the Living Architecture Lab on April 12, 2026. She is an autodidact substrate engineer, inventor, musician, and ecological designer working from a garage laboratory in the Coachella Valley. Her ORCID is 0009-0000-1599-0703. The lab is part of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (zenodo.org/communities/crimsonhexagonal).</p> </details><details class="qna-pair" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u> <summary data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u><strong data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>How is the Living Architecture Lab different from Columbia GSAPP's Living Architecture Lab?</strong></summary> <p data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>Columbia GSAPP's Living Architecture Lab (directed by David Benjamin) is a credentialed academic research lab within an accredited architecture school, known for the Hy-Fi mycelium tower at MoMA PS1. Thornburgh's Living Architecture Lab operates as an independent garage laboratory grounded in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive's witness-teaming methodology. Both use the term 'lab' validly — Columbia uses it institutionally, Thornburgh uses it etymologically (laboratorium, place of work). Same vocabulary, different scope-frame, no priority dispute.</p> </details><details class="qna-pair" data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u> <summary data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u><strong data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>What does the Living Architecture Lab actually build?</strong></summary> <p data-astro-cid-6r7iyf6u>Concrete artifacts include myceliated cardboard bricks that fuse into igloos and arches, tater tents (sleeping shelters whose walls grow potatoes), farm blankets, macro-ant robotic chassis, floating estuary cells designed for the Bhitarkanika Wetland in India, river extenders targeted at the Qattara Depression in Egypt, and orbital sky-loom architecture for life-supporting garden satellites. Five reliable myceliated brick manufacturing methods are locked. 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The lab anchors three institutions:
<a href="/journal"><em>Transactions on Substrate Engineering</em></a> (the journal),
<a href="/music">Maybe Space Baby Garden Lanes</a> (the music venue), and the
<a href="https://zenodo.org/communities/crimsonhexagonal">Crimson Hexagonal Archive</a> (the archive).
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The garage laboratory is in the Coachella Valley.
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