Toronto's Terrestrial Reefs: BioRock's Infrastructural Biogeochemical Futures
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the design potentials of BioRock, an underutilized accreting material that simulates the reef building processes of corals. BioRock is a grown limestone, alternative to concrete with design agency that has many positive benefits including its ability to act as an ecological scaffold, sequester pollutants, and being highly sustainable. This thesis proposes three speculative applications of BioRock within Toronto, including the reintroduction of Alvars as a landscape strategy extending from aggregate infills, an industrial remediation for obsolete water treatment reservoirs, and the in-situ repair of concrete bents supporting the Gardiner Expressway. As a material system, BioRock can help relieve cities from environmental and infrastructural issues, informing new design proposals for future urbanization. This design is explored through experimental models and test fragments of BioRock which form a library of artefacts that traverse biogeochemical scales of speculation, assembling a collection of work that I call a Terrestrial Reef.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".