How plants inspire facades. From plants to architecture: Biomimetic principles for the development of adaptive architectural envelopes
Façades have an important role in the control of energy waste in buildings, nevertheless most of them are designed to provide static design solutions, wasting large amounts of energy to maintain the internal comfort. However, biological adaptation solutions are complex, multi-functional and highly r...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI) |
| Repository: | RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/42376 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10651/42376 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.018 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | biomimicry Adaptive architectural envelopes Energy efficiency Plant adaptations Climate adaptations |
| Summary: | Façades have an important role in the control of energy waste in buildings, nevertheless most of them are designed to provide static design solutions, wasting large amounts of energy to maintain the internal comfort. However, biological adaptation solutions are complex, multi-functional and highly responsive. This paper proposes a biomimetic research of the relationship that can be developed between Biology and Architecture in order to propose innovative façade design solutions. We focus on plants, because of plants, like buildings, lack of movement and remain subject to a specific location. Nevertheless, plants have adapted to the environment developing special means of interaction with changing external issues. This paper provides a methodology to create a data collection of plant adaptations and a design mapping to guide the transfer from biological principles to architectural resources, as well as two design concept cases, opening new perspectives for new possible technical solutions and showing the potential of plant adaptations to environmental conditions at a specific climate. Further step is the transformation of some design concepts into technical solutions through experiments with new technologies that include multi-material 3D printing or advances in material science. |
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