Blending Elements of Nature Into Modern Building Design Ideas: Biomimicry

BLENDING ELEMENTS OF NATURE
INTO MODERN BUILDING DESIGN

IDEAS: BIOMIMICRY
THASNEEM K.S
B180007CE
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1 INTRODUCTION
2 APPROACHES AND LEVELS
3 PRINCIPLE OF BIOMIMICRY
CONTENTS
4 APPLICATION OF BIOMIMICRY
5 CONCLUSION
6 REFERENCE
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BIOMIMICRY
 Publications of biologist Janine Benyus’s 1997
book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by
Nature.
 Biomimicry (from bios, that means life, and
mimesis, assuming to imitate).
 Sustainable solution
 Form, process, and ecosystem
 Nature as model, measure and mentor.
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 PRINCIPLES OF BIOMIMICRY
 Integrate
development
 Adapt to with growth  Been locally
 Evolve to
survive changing attuned and
 Resource  Using life-
conditions responsive
(material and friendly
energy) chemistry
efficient
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 LEVELS AND APPROACHES
TOP-DOWN APPROACH
DESIGN
APPROACHES
BIOMIMICRY
BOTTOM-TOP APPROACH
ORGANISM LEVEL
LEVEL OF BEHAVIOR LEVEL

BIOMIMICRY
ECOSYSTEM LEVEL
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Application of Biomimicry :
 The Esplanade Theater
 Singapore's national performing arts centre
 By DP Architects and Michael Wilford
 Inspired by Durian Fruit
 Protects the interiors from overheating
 Estgate Centre
 shopping mall and office space in Harare,

Zimbabwe.
 By architect mick Pearce
 Passive cooling system
 Inspired by the self-cooling mounds of
African termites.
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Application of Biomimicry :
 Self-Healing Buildings

 By Dutch microbiologist Henk Jonkers
 Inspired by Alkaliphilic bacteria
 Oxidation of calcium lactate
 Calcite fills the crack and repairs the
damaged ones.
 Self cleansing paint
 By Professor Wilhem Barthlott

 Inspired by lotus plant.
 Eco-friendly and dirt-free
 Super-hydrophobic behaviour and Lotus
effect .
 Alternatives to toxic cleaning detergents
 ‘Lotusan’ by ISPO.
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Application of Biomimicry:
 DNA Tower

 By Vincent Callebaut Architectures.
 Inspired by Human DNA.
 24 plus-energy towers of housing, offices, or
mixed.
 Eco-designed according to bioclimatic rules.
 By the integration of renewable energies.
 Cement

 By brent constants.
 Inspired by corals construct reefs.
 Prevent greenhouse gases.
 Formation of calcium carbonate-limestone.
 Stored dry as cement.
 Utilized in a concrete formulation.
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 CONCLUSION:
 Biomimicry encourages students to explore their ecosystems in an entirely
new way by observing, sketching, exploring, and gasping knowledge of
how living systems interconnect and thrive.
 Biomimicry in interior architecture aims to discover sustainable solutions to

the most critical issues in interior environments.
 Biomimicry has a number of its utilization in civil engineering like passive

cooling, structural designing, optimization, monitoring structural health,
learning genetic algorithms, etc.
 some forms are obtained mathematically, which is best, cheap, and self-
sustained in construction and offers higher performance in seismic
conditions or events.
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“THERE IS NO BETTER DESIGN THAN NATURE”
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 REFERENCE
 [1] Baumeister, D., Desha, C., Hayes, S., (2020), ‘Learning from nature – Biomimicry
innovation to support infrastructure sustainability and resilience’ , Technological
Forecasting and Social Change Vol. 161, 120287.
 [2] Mirniazmandan, S., Rahimianzarif, E., ‘Biomimicry an Approach toward

Sustainability of High-Rise Buildings’ , Iranian Journal of Science and Technology,
Transactions A: Science 42, 1837–1846 (2018).
 [3] RMA, E.-Z., (2012), ‘Biomimicry as a Problem Solving Methodology in Interior

Architecture’, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol.50: pp. 502 – 512.
 [4] Majumder, S., Saha, P., (2014), ‘BIOMIMICRY AND ITS ADAPTATIONS TO SOLVE
COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING SYSTEMS’, International Conference
on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure 2014 (ICSCI 2014 © ASCE India Section),
Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
 [5] Pathak, S., (2019), ‘Biomimicry: (Innovation Inspired by Nature)’, International

Journal of New Technology and Research, Vol.5(6), pp 34-38.
 [6] Aigbavboa, C., Oguntona, O., (2017), ‘Biomimicry principles as evaluation criteria of
sustainability in the construction industry’ , Energy Procedia Vol.142, pp 2491–2497.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.18
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BLENDING ELEMENTS OF NATURE

INTO MODERN BUILDING DESIGN

2 APPROACHES AND LEVELS

LEVEL OF BEHAVIOR LEVEL

 shopping mall and office space in Harare,

 Self cleansing paint

 By Professor Wilhem Barthlott

 Biomimicry in interior architecture aims to discover sustainable solutions to

 Biomimicry has a number of its utilization in civil engineering like passive

 [2] Mirniazmandan, S., Rahimianzarif, E., ‘Biomimicry an Approach toward

 [3] RMA, E.-Z., (2012), ‘Biomimicry as a Problem Solving Methodology in Interior

 [5] Pathak, S., (2019), ‘Biomimicry: (Innovation Inspired by Nature)’, International

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