After the Tsunami - is a great short story by Rachel Armstrong. Imagine a world of living architecture, and how our symbiosis with the very structures we inhabit could dramatically change the outcome of a calamity such as the earthquake/tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011.
As Yomo combed the ground, he began to notice strange details that had been caused by the continued activity of the living materials within the post tsunami landscape. […] Where the ground remained soggy the capsules swelled with water and filtered it within their molecular meshworks, to provide survivors with a ready source of drinking water.
![After the Tsunami - is a great short story by Rachel Armstrong. Imagine a world of living architecture, and how our symbiosis with the very structures we inhabit could dramatically change the outcome of a calamity such as the earthquake/tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011.
As Yomo combed the ground, he began to notice strange details that had been caused by the continued activity of the living materials within the post tsunami landscape. […] Where the ground remained soggy the capsules swelled with water and filtered it within their molecular meshworks, to provide survivors with a ready source of drinking water.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m57y9gpA6d1qiiz3qo1_500.jpg)