It is often taken to mean the "natural environment" or 

wilderness
in general those things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention, or which
persist despite human intervention. For example, manufactured objects and human interaction
generally are not considered part of nature, unless qualified as, for example, "human nature" or "the
whole of nature". This more traditional concept of natural things which can still be found today implies
a distinction between the natural and the artificial, with the artificial being understood as that which
has been brought into being by a human consciousness or a human mind. Depending on the particular
context, the term "natural" might also be distinguished from the unnatural, thesupernatural, or 
synthetic.

Properties common to terrestrial organisms (plants, animals, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria) are that they

are cellular, carbon-and-water-based with complex organization, having a metabolism, a capacity to grow,
respond to stimuli, and reproduce. An entity with these properties is generally considered life
Contents
1 Earth
1.1 Geology
1.1.1 Geological evolution
1.2 Historical perspective
2 Atmosphere, climate, and weather
3 Water on Earth
3.1 Oceans
3.2 Lakes
3.2.1 Ponds
3.3 Rivers
3.4 Streams
4 Ecosystems
4.1 Wilderness
5 Life
5.1 Evolution
5.2 Microbes
5.3 Plants and animals
6 Human interrelationship
6.1 Aesthetics and beauty
7 Matter and energy
8 Beyond Earth
• 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”, and architecture can
benefit from this kind of approach.
• Life has had millions of years to finely-tune mechanisms and structures (such as photosynthesis,
or spider’s silk) that work better than current technologies, require less energy and produce no
life-unfriendly waste. The emulation of this technology is the goal of biomimicry, the art of
innovation inspired by nature.” ………Brett Hoverstott
Study of natural forms – the source of
inspiration in the product design
Abstract: The study of nature forms, of cycles of existence of natural products as a source of
inspiration and the
familiarization for specialists designers, constructors, technicians etc. in the designing of new
generation
industrial products. In nature we may find even more constructive structures that supply us a
source of
permanent creative inspiration in conceiving shapes of material products. By using the laws of
nature
evolution, of harmonizing the function with the shape, humanity will succeed to conduct the
ecological
production of material goods.

Key words: design, ecology, bionic, nature, construction, production.

The material world surrounding us is made up of objects that have some of the shapes and
peculiarities of these, and what we call shape.
Any form is the result of one of the processes below:
– Uncontrolled processes, when the shape depends only on the conditions of the environment
(formation of mountains, rocks, river gravel, etc);
– Processes that depend on the laws of physics and chemistry of nature and of their formation
environment (ice crystals);
– Processes guided genetically and by the conditions of environment (living organisms);
– Processes guided by human demands, insects, and animals and by the conditions of environment
(the shape of the industrial products, beaver dams, bird nests, etc.)
 ANY FORM (RESULT OF FOLLOWING PROCESS)

DEPEND ON THE LAWS OF

SHAPE DEPENDS HUMAN DEMANDS
PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY
ENVIRONMENT and ENVIRONMENT
OF NATURE & ENVIR..
i.E ROCKS
i.e ICE CRYSTAL
 NATURE

LIFE WATER GEOLOGY ATMOSPHERE MATTER AND ENERGY

If we are attentive enough, we will notice that all the processes that contribute to the formation of
the shapes of objects surrounding us are connected to a general factor – the environment where they
take place. So what is the connection between the shapes of nature and the shapes of human created
products; where does the border between nature environment and environment created for satisfying
human demands by engineer-designers and
architects lie?

Nature has been, is and will be an endless

source of creative inspiration for humanity. By
studying and analyzing nature’s formal and constructive processes humanity has always solved and
continues to solve many of its vital problems
 BIONICS
“the analysis of the ways in which living systems actually work and having discovered nature's
tricks, embodying them in hardware”
Major Jack Steele, US Air force

Bionics study of living systems with the intention of applying their principles to the design of
engineering systems.
The Concise Columbia encyclopedias

1. Total mimicry - an object material chemical structure that is indistinguishable from the natural
product e.g. early attempts to construct flying machines.
2. Partial mimicry - a modified version of the natural product, e.g. artificial wood.
3. Non-biological analogy – functional mimicry, e.g. modern planes and use of airfoils.
4. Abstraction – the use of an isolated mechanism, e.g. fiber reinforcement of composites.
5. Inspiration – trigger for creativity, e.g. design for architectural and engineering constructions alike
to plants, animals and insects (figure 3).
Bio-design is probably the oldest methodology of designing with real examples from all over the
history of humanity. Probably the greatest beneficiary of this design methodology is the area of
transportation and architectural design

Democritus (460 – 370 BC) wrote: “The spider taught us to weave, the swallow – to build
houses”
UNITY OF FORM AND FUNCTION

It is well known that there is no shape without function in nature, as well as function without
shape. Harmony between function and shape in material world is one of the most important tasks of
the nowadays designers.
 UNITY OF SHAPE AND FUNCTION

HARMONY BETWEEN SHAPE/FUNCTION

NO FUNCTION WITHOUT SHAPE NO SHAPE WITHOUT FUNCTION

Constructive systems of column type
In nature we find many plants with a great height and a small surface of support which is still
resistant to different actions of the environment. The stem of rye ear, for instance, has a relation
between the diameter of the straw and its height of 1:500. The weight of the ear outruns the
weight of
the stem by 1.5 times; the cane has a height of approximately 3m and a stem diameter of 15mm
Say abt 3 phase ….1 read sharp shapes …2..explore forms or modify ..3..make
modles to have proper view of final forms 
 Aims:

     inspired from kangro form nd also from its characteristics…

Process Followed :

                                Inspiration from nature

                                Ideation
                                Form development
                                Concept development > Product
                                Product material
                                Product styling
                                Working prototype