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Biomimicry Research
Sun, 2013/03/24 - 16:46 nhoeller
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Dissertation
Biomimicry: Potential for the use
of Biomimicry in Architectural
Design (Distinction)
Bio-mimicry
Bios Life
Mimesis Imitation
My BArch dissertation titled, Biomimicry: Potential for the use of Biomimicry in Architectural
Design, investigated sustainability in design through the process of biomimicry and was awarded a
distinction. Through historical research, analysis of texts, site visits and interviews with leading
architects in this field, I was able to present my research and findings on a subject in parallel with my
BArch studio work. These techniques allowed me to develop informed and educated conclusions on
the potential use of biomimicry in sustainable architectural design.
The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis
by using the same thinking that created the situation
Albert Einstein
Abstract
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www.exploration-architecture.com
also, a lot of the brownell's 'transmaterial' emails that i've gotten have
to do with things that happen at the skin of a building: related to
temperature, light, pressure, etc. if you can find an archive of those
and find the ones that pertain...
""intrigued by building skins that function as human skin (blushing buildings), animal skins (camo structures)""
ecojy, check out www.basilisk.com it also gives you links to greg lynn`s site.
www.glform.com
hope that was useful.
I've recommended it several times on archinect before, but one of the classic books on the subject is D'Arcy
Wentworth Thompson's "On Growth and Form" (published 1917), explaining the mathematics behind engineering and
cellular growth, and introducing topological transformations as a way to understand the similarity of different species.
It is, of course, very mathematic and does not go into zoomorphism, which I think a "blushing building" is. Where
blushing might fill a social function for humans, there is neither cause nor effect for a building that imitates this
behaviour.
I recently started reading Dennis Dollens' "Digital-Botanic Architecture": ISBN 0-930829-54-9 $17 Retail and am
thoroughly impressed. The XFrog experiments are not the greatest, but the contents of the book has helped to
broaden my first year of core in SCI-Arc's "X" program with Hernan Diaz Alonso, Elena Manferdini, Marcelo Spina and
Peter Testa.
Of note was a fantastic plate #2 of Sullivan's "System of Architectural Ornament". Maybe I'm mistaken, but Sullivan
was not even talked about in our program and this plate was essentially a duplicate of one of our first exercises in
understanding nature as it relates to architecture.
i second a-f, "on growth and form" is very, very, very interesting and will take you to new places,,,
_urb_ here on archinect had an interesting piece on geo-mimicry,, it might be helpful to see what he talks about, in
terms of "mimicry" and "design".. >>http://archurbanist.blogspot.com/2008/09/geo-mimicry.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/janine_benyus_shares_nature_s_d
esigns.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr6XFQJjO-U
BIOMIMICMARKETING
NATURE AS INSPIRATION
By taking a look around, designers can
find inspiration everywhere particularly
in nature. Nature provides us with an
amazing array of solutions for many
complex problems that we face today
the quest to learn from nature in this way
is biomimicry, andarchitecture can
benefit from this kind of approach.
(1) Holverstott, Brett. What Can Architecture Learn From Nature. GreenBizSite.
September 7, 2008.