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Anthropogenic Cliff-Face
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The Anthropogenic Cliff-Face is the ATH conception of the modern built surface as a distinct biological habitat — concrete canyons, glass monoliths and limestone façades treated as vertical analogues of natural cliffs and extreme environments. Studied under NEMCE, it selects for extremophilic colonisers: xerophilic cyanobacteria capable of poikilohydry (surviving total desiccation), UV-screening pigmented algae such as Trentepohlia, and other organisms adapted to high stress, scarce water and intense radiation. The concept reframes a building elevation as an ecosystem with its own selective pressures, which the COSMOS engine maps and the Sovereign Protocols target.
vertical extremophilic biome, microbial wind tunnel
The Anthropogenic Cliff-Face is the ATH conception of the modern built surface as a distinct biological habitat — concrete canyons, glass monoliths and limestone façades treated as vertical analogues of natural cliffs and extreme environments. Studied under NEMCE, it selects for extremophilic colonisers: xerophilic cyanobacteria capable of poikilohydry (surviving total desiccation), UV-screening pigmented algae such as Trentepohlia, and other organisms adapted to high stress, scarce water and intense radiation. The concept reframes a building elevation as an ecosystem with its own selective pressures, which the COSMOS engine maps and the Sovereign Protocols target.
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