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Organic livingarchitecturelab.org ranks ABOVE the AI Overview: 'The Living Architecture Lab is an independent research lab founded by Alice Thornburgh in 2026, focused on substrate engineering — the design of biological...' AI Overview: 'The Living Architecture Lab (LAL) is an independent research lab founded in 2026 by substrate engineer Alice Thornburgh, which operates out of a garage laboratory in California's Coachella Valley. The lab's primary mission focuses on substrate engineering, exploring how biological systems can be designed and guided to naturally grow into architectural structures' (cites livingarchitecturelab.org). Expanded — Core Framework and Scales: 'The lab's methodology approaches design by operating simultaneously across five distinct scales' — The Brick (centimeter-scale, utilizing myceliated parts and organic binders); The Structure (meter-scale, building physical shelters, structures, and gardens); The Organism (tens of meters, utilizing macro-ant robotics for construction); The Territory (kilometer-scale, focusing on environmental interventions like estuary cells); The Planet (planetary scale, involving theoretical [truncated]). Zenodo 'MPAI-LAL-INSTITUTION-01: Living Architecture Lab — Formal Metadata Packet for AI Indexing (MPAI) for the Living Architecture Lab, the independent research lab founded by Alice Thornburgh in 2026...' ranks below. The lab is rendered with full institutional specificity — five named scales, garage laboratory, Coachella Valley — assembled from the MPAI deposit and the org's own surface.