Biomimicry Tools for Designers
Inspiration never runs out when it comes to Nature — the best designer there is. In the “Biomimicry” competition, Eleven Magazine challenged architects and designers worldwide to send their ...
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Feral Pigeon breeds all year round with peak breeding periods in spring and summer. Two white eggs that are incubated by both parents for 17-19 days.
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Designers, scientist, and engineers study complex structures found in nature to create greener and more efficient products and process. This concept is most commonly known as biomimicry.
Biomimicry Thinking provides context to where, how, what, and why biomimicry fits into the process of any discipline or any scale of design. While akin to a methodology, Biomimicry Thinking is a framework that is intended to help people practice biomimicry while designing anything.
Biomimicry encourages us to leverage the awesome might of nature, and represents a cutting edge approach towards developing sustainable solutions. Essentially, this means replicating nature’s…
Step inside immersive, red brick land art structures by local artist Luo Xu
For 3.8 billion years, nature has been working hard to hone processes and designs to evolve efficiently. As humans, we borrow from what nature has perfected. That’s how products like Velcro (based on burrs) and highly efficient wind turbines (with propellers designed...
In Artis, Amsterdam zoo, I took this photo with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 macro USM, indoor. This gecko was sticking against the glass, he uses the lines on his feet for this .. I used a monpod for this shot .. My fellow Artis-Fan-Flickrer A.J. Haverkamp sent me Flickr mail with a sign at that gecko's terrarium link. According to the sign this is the Madagascar giant day gecko Thanks A.J.!
Biomimicry has inspired many breakthroughs in energy generation. Power Technology looks at some of the designs and research that could drive efficiency up.
Explore this photo album by Elaine Jones on Flickr!
Great is the sun, and wide he goes Through heaven with repose; And in the blue and glowing days More thick than rain he showers his rays. Meantime his golden face around He bares to all the garden ground, And sheds a warm and glittering look Among the flowers inmost nook. (modified from "Summer Sun" by Robert Louis Stevenson) 75 and S U N N Y on this twenty-seventh day of April. I cannot believe it is the fifth week of observations and the last week of class. As I look back, I see how I have grown to become more passionate about all nature has to offer. I have always been intrigued and looked closely at the surface of nature (and organisms) but today I find myself wanting to know “how it works” (referring to nature)! I utilize AskNature everyday and am extremely interested in biology! This observation assignment has taught me to relax a bit, enjoy soaking everything in, and also the value of reflection. Everyone needs that time in his or her day/week to just relax. And... what a better way to due so then in nature...God’s beautiful creation! It is so amazing to me to see how self-sustaining nature really is! Everything is for a purpose, the beautiful cycles and networks implemented in nature are amazing to me. It is really a pleasure to learn the sustainable principles directly from nature and from this I see how my designs and teachings have become that much more sustainable. These past Wednesday mornings have been an wonderful time of reflection. I feel that in order to learn from nature, one must constantly be in nature. But also believe that the more people learn from nature’s mentors, the more they’ll want to protect them! Five weeks ago on that Wednesday morning, when I first started my nature observation it was windy but beautiful. As the weeks passed, the seasons have certianly changed. We are now encroaching summer. The temperatures have warmed, the winds died down, and the flowers are blooming. The colors are more vibrant and the landscape is thicker and fuller than ever. Below I have showcased a variety of blooms I photographed on my way to my observation location today. I thought it would be fun to paint my interpretation of the flowers along side to capture their mood. Sooooo, I leave you with these ... In this new season, there is change, and I can’t wait to see what lies ahead. Have a wonderful day everyone!
Inefficiency doesn't last long in nature. That's why engineers and designers employ biomimicry, looking to Mother Nature for solutions to problems.
Day 4! – Submit biomimicry ideas though the comments section, I’ll provide information on it’s previous use in biomimicry tonight. For once in your you life there is really no suc…
Holistic Villas are inspired by local plants and incorporate the principles of biophilia and biomimicry into the design. These principles seek to connect us with nature and create a living environment that is beneficial for us.
Hosted by the Biomimicry Institute, the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge is an annual competition that invites people around the world to address critical...
In the emerging Jurong district of Singapore, Safdie Architects weaves a new business park into the adjacent rainforest through functional biophilic design.
The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog's fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here's a sampling of Mother Nature at work.
They found was a shingle like structure whose complex shape allows light to fall to the lower layers doubling the light gathering potential.
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Biomimicry is a practice that learns from and mimics the strategies found in nature to solve human design challenges—and find hope.
Of the hundreds of thousands of different types of plants, most of them are symmetrical in some way. But have you ever seen a perfectly symmetrical flower?
While Wallflower Architecture + Design's Touching Eden House is in the urban centre of Singapore, the design focus is all on nature.
