Biomimetics in Architecture: Architecture of Life and Buildings

Cover......Page 1
BIOMIMETICS IN ARCHITECTURE......Page 3
ISBN 9783709103319......Page 4
Table of Contents   \r......Page 6
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 8
2.1 ARCHITECTURE......Page 10
2.1.2 Categories of architecture......Page 11
2.1.5 Quality in architecture......Page 13
2.2.1 Terms, definitions and related fields......Page 14
2.2.2 Historical background and development of bionik......Page 18
2.2.3 Recent views......Page 28
2.2.4 Fields of research and examples......Page 31
2.3.1 Interdisciplinarity......Page 42
2.3.3 Analogy......Page 43
2.3.4 Similarity and scale......Page 45
2.3.5 Convergence......Page 47
2.3.8 Methods of transfer......Page 49
3 CLASSICAL APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATE OVERLAPS BETWEEN BIOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE......Page 51
3.1.2 Positions......Page 52
3.2 \"NATURAL CONSTRUCTION\"......Page 55
3.2.2 Traditional architecture......Page 56
3.2.3 Architecture with aspects from nature......Page 58
3.3 NATURE\'S DESIGN PRINCIPLES......Page 97
3.3.2 Energy efficiency......Page 98
3.3.3 Self-organisation and chaos theory......Page 99
3.3.4 Information......Page 101
3.3.6 Self-design, learning, smartness......Page 102
3.3.7 Nature\'s numbers......Page 103
3.3.8 Structure and function......Page 108
3.4 PARALLELS, DIFFERENCES AND SYNERGIES BETWEEN DESIGN IN NATURE AND IN ARCHITECTURE......Page 109
3.5 BIOMIMETICS IN CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURE......Page 110
4.1 LIFE, BIOLOGY......Page 111
4.1.1 What is alive? Inanimate, animate and dead nature......Page 112
4.1.2 The smallest unit of life: the cell......Page 113
4.1.3 General characteristics of life......Page 115
4.1.4 Classical criteria of life......Page 118
4.1.5 Evolution theory......Page 122
4.1.6 Ecosystems and cybernetics......Page 124
4.2 ARCHITECTURAL INTERPRETATION OF LIFE CRITERIA......Page 125
4.2.1 Openness......Page 126
4.2.2 Self-organisation......Page 130
4.2.3 Information processing......Page 133
4.2.4 Limitation - space and time, death as renewal......Page 139
4.2.5 Order......Page 145
4.2.6 Propagation......Page 155
4.2.7 Growth......Page 157
4.2.8 Energy processing......Page 162
4.2.9 Reaction to the environment......Page 168
4.2.10 Homoeostasis and metabolism......Page 182
4.2.11 Evolution and natural selection......Page 186
4.3 COMMENTS AND HITHERTO UNEXPLORED FIELDS......Page 192
4.4.1 Life in architecture, or when is architecture considered alive?......Page 195
4.4.3 Creation of environment......Page 196
5.1.1 Introduction......Page 197
5.1.2 Earthquake March 2005......Page 204
5.1.3 Settlement structures......Page 206
5.1.4 Typologies of the \"Omo Hada\"......Page 212
5.1.5 Adaptation to environment......Page 221
5.1.6 Adaptation to earthquakes......Page 224
5.1.7 Differentiation of typologies......Page 233
5.1.8 Adaptation of traditional structures......Page 239
5.1.9 Conclusion......Page 242
5.1.11 Future prospects......Page 243
5.2 TRANSFORMATION ARCHITECTURE......Page 244
5.3.1 Methodology......Page 248
5.3.2 Selection of role models......Page 249
5.3.4 Structural categories according to speed and reversibility......Page 250
5.3.5 Candidate geometries......Page 251
5.3.7 Conclusion......Page 254
5.4.1 Method......Page 255
5.4.2 Projects......Page 256
6.1 TRANSFER STRATEGIES AND METHODS......Page 263
6.2 SUGGESTIONS......Page 264
7.1 LITERATURE......Page 265
7.2 FIGURES AND PHOTOGRAPHY......Page 271