2.2.

Case Study

2.2.1.1. Summary

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A PROPOSED OLANGO WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER AND TOURISM

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The wildlife conservation center and tourism complex provide a facility that
rescues injured/endangered wild life animals in the island which they will rehabilitate
and will be released back into the wild. It provides research and laboratory facilities for
the researchers. It also provides a Wildlife Interactive Museum and a library for people
to understand more about bird migration patterns and other wild life animals. As for the
tourists, they will also be provided with room accommodations. This is generally a study
intended to provide architectural research, programming, and solutions to conform to
the need of the research facility and tourism complex on the island.

Moreover, it is a research and education center where people can conduct and
learn about research on wildlife. In this regard, the center will be able to bring to light
issues relating to wildlife biodiversity by initiating and managing various projects,
competitions, workshops, seminars, training, and conferences. The idea is to promote
science-based thinking in order to facilitate the understanding of issues based on
scientific observation.
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BIO-MIMICRY: WATER RESEARCH CENTER, FIKA PATSO DAM, SOUTH

AFRICA

The Water Research Centre not only addresses the issue of water research but
also how architecture reacts to its surrounding context and the effect that it has on how
the building operates and functions. The architecture is activated by the environment’s
transformation from one season to the other. The water is the lifeline of the building, it
not only supplies water to the building but the architecture in return purifies, and creates
habitats for fish and birds, it lives in symbiosis with nature.

The concept driving the design of the Water Research Center of the University of
the Free State in South Africa is known as bio-mimicry, learning from nature’s regulating
processes to inspire an understanding of architecture in sync with the environment.
Architecture, according to the project’s author, can mimic the mechanisms at work in
nature to produce architectural structures that can sustain themselves, while in
symbiosis with nature. The project aims to amalgamate the land mass and bodies of
water with a dam constructed on existing pillars to form a hybrid landscape. The
building evolves into a kind of living creature or organism with a roof-like structure
opening or closing according to the seasonal rainfall.

2.2.1.2. Architectural Analysis

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 Generally, the goal of this study is to offer architectural research, programming,
and solutions that meet the needs of the island's research facility and tourism complex.
Knowledge of the natural world and a full understanding of its utilization are further
goals of this research.

In addition, this research facility and tourism complex uses bird hides. The main
function of a hide is to let the observer get closer to their objective than they otherwise
might and to allow the long-term study of bird or other animal behavior without
frightening the target. As far as possible, the observer must therefore blend in with the
surroundings. Beyond preventing the observer from being seen by the observed, hides
must also ensure that no sounds, including voices, the shuffle of the observers, the
motor film feed of a camera, or the flapping of fabric coverings, startle the birds or
animals being observed. A telescope will make it easier to see farther out.

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BIO-MIMICRY: WATER RESEARCH CENTER, FIKA PATSO DAM, SOUTH

AFRICA

The water research center was designed using an approach that led to architect
Jurie Swart, biomimicry is the study of how nature regulates its systems in order to
create architecture that is in tune with its surroundings. Architecture may imitate the
processes at work in nature to create architectural buildings that maintain themselves
while working in harmony with the environment.

2.2.1.3. Findings and Analysis

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 A PROPOSED OLANGO WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER AND TOURISM
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The project includes a building that offers a research center and a medical facility
that may be useful to researchers and other Olango wildlife species. This would entail a
quicker reaction in emergency situations and more time for biologists and students to
conduct research. Moreover, this will promote awareness to everyone that wildlife is
very essential for our survival

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BIO-MIMICRY: WATER RESEARCH CENTER, FIKA PATSO DAM, SOUTH

AFRICA

The project's goal is to create a hybrid environment by combining land mass and
bodies of water with a dam built on existing pillars. The structure matures into a live
species or organism with a roof-like structure that opens and closes in response to
seasonal rains.