Biourban Campus Design

Innovation Education Creating Opportunity

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The objectives of our group can not be achieved with online operations alone. So we design, refine, create and operate physical sites that run the SMART program.

## Basecamp

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Our prototype efforts are in the Philippines, a set of Basecamps starting with our Homeoffice and then Basecamp One. Both of these locations are in the province of Nueva Ecija. Modular elements of our design, allowing for development of various sites, are as follows:

* Homeoffice: The first phase is renovation of a home office in Nueva Ecija, where our property scouting efforts are ongoing.
* Café Core: This core structure fits with a café-bistro modular addition as well as others.
* Residence Core: This core structure serves as a dedicated student and staff residence and fits with our modular additions.
* Core Second Story: The second story plan for both core structures is universal, but not required.
* Core West Extension: This extension is required to support the Core Second Story if present.
* Second Story West Deck: This is an expandable open deck plan designed for the Core Second Story and the Core West Extension.
* Café Kitchen North: This cooling climate commercial kitchen, suited for the Philippines, can fit either core structure.
* Café East: This is the café-bistro seating and retail area for the Café Core.
* Modular Systems: Miscellaneous smaller modular systems have been grouped into site plans for demonstration purposes.

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## Biourbanism

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This information is directly from biourbanism.org:

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**What is Biourbanism?**

Definition prepared by the Biourbanism Task Force consisting of Antonio Caperna, Alessia Cerqua, Alessandro Giuliani, Nikos A. Salingaros, and Stefano Serafini.

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Biourbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a hypercomplex system, according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions.

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The urban body is composed of several interconnected layers of dynamic structure, all influencing each other in a non-linear manner. This interaction results in emergent properties, which are not predictable except through a dynamical analysis of the connected whole. This approach, therefore, links Biourbanism to the Life Sciences, and to Integrated Systems Sciences like Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Operations Research, and Ecology in an essential manner. The similarity of approaches lies not only in the common methodology but also in the content of the results (hence the prefix “Bio”) because the city represents the living environment of the human species. Biourbanism recognizes optimal forms defined at different scales (from the purely physiological up to the ecological levels) which, through morphogenetic processes, guarantee an optimum of systemic efficiency and for the quality of life of the inhabitants. A design that does not follow these laws produces anti-natural, hostile environments, which do not fit into an individual’s evolution and thus fail to enhance life in any way.

Biourbanism acts in the real world by applying a participative and helping methodology. It verifies results inter-subjectively (as people express their physical and emotional wellbeing through feedback) as well as objectively (via experimental measures of physiological, social, and economic reactions).

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The aim of Biourbanism is to make a scientific contribution towards:

1. the development and implementation of the premises of Deep Ecology (Bateson) on social-environmental grounds;
2. the identification and actualization of environmental enhancement according to the natural needs of human beings and the ecosystem in which they live;
3. managing the transition of the fossil fuel economy towards a new organizational model of civilization; and
4. deepening the organic interaction between cultural and physical factors in urban reality (as, for example, the geometry of social action, fluxes and networks study, et cetera.)

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## Living Systems

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Our particular biourban designs focus on the incorporation of sustainable living systems with small urban infrastructure like homes and properties that individuals often own. This scale allows the wide-scale application of our work in a grass roots, bottom up fashion, by members of our community, our readers who own small properties, etc. We consider life on a number of levels: microscopic biomes, mycology, agronomy, station ergonomics, site architecture, hyperlocal community interaction, local interaction and shipping links beyond that. Some of our design draws upon the science of space exploration, which mandates human life support but will soon be engineering bio-regenerative systems at settlements on the moon and Mars.

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## Students & Families in Need

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Every site we design is a small farm, campus, staff / student residence, commercial kitchen and bistro-café. This allows us to provide our staff, students and their families with:

* Nutritious, delicious, cost efficient food
* Education or employment for local people
* Biophilic, organic surroundings that encourage creativity, mental health and clear thought
* Income from local, regional and international sources for the site and the community
* Local economic development from business operations
* Community services (i.e. free LAN Wikipedia and e-book server, free USBC device charging, free clinic facilities, free community movie nights, at-cost water refills, at-cost community bake ovens / food driers)

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## Expanded Topics

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* Basecamp Plans
* Health & Wellness
* Homeoffice Plans
* Pyrolizers & Gasifiers
* Renewable Energy Tech
* School to Table Distribution
* Systems & Stations
* Teamspaces
* Theorist Gardens
* Vertical Integration

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## Utilities & Resources

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* Rules of this Wiki
* Getting Started
* How to Contribute
* Community Management
* Help Guides
* All Help Articles

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