Architecture Inspired by Nature: Experimenting Bionics

Book Overview

The book brings together the research completed during 10 editions of International Seminaries of Bionics organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Alcal , in Madrid, Spain, some of them in collaboration with the "Ion Mincu" University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania. The articles here take advanced bionic design principles and apply then to an impressive variety of application fields including but not limited to urban planning and landscape, public space, architecture and building structures, design and detailing, application of natural dynamic processes, bio-digital architecture, innovative materials based on living organisms (micro-algae), and nano-modified materials. A particular focus is given to light and perception of light. To illustrate the principles being described, this contributed volume includes descriptions and full-color images of the experimental projects created during the workshops organized together with the ISB (?) meetings: Learning from Nature, Integrating Bionics (2009), Adaptability, efficiency and biostructures (2010), Bionics and Innovation (2011), Forms and structures inspired by Nature and trials on them (2016, 2017); Furniture inspired in natural models (2018); Relation between structure and envelope: Light structures (2019); Light from Nature to Architecture. Structures inspired in Nature (2020); Light in architecture and design: A bionic perspective (2021), Sustainable thinking and Bionics (2022).

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031331435
• ISBN13: 9783031331435
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.2" x 11.0"