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Organisms Taking Shape!
This post examines how living organisms can be transformed into buildings. It specifically dives deeper into observing a building created by Santiago Calatrava which is shaped into an eye.
The Structure of a Flower Petal
This post examines what the term biomorphic architecture means and how we see it in many different examples in today's world. More specifically, it studies how a flower petal can be incorporated into different architectural styles and buildings.
The Urban Lung
This post introduces a new concept for a build: The Urban Lung. The Urban Lung is a climate friendly building that isolates carbon emissions through sustainable and climate friendly materials. The building serves as a symbol of breathing both metaphorically (the carbon emissions that are able to pass through) and physically (the air purifying system).
Article Posts
Can Buildings Behave like Organisms?
A team of Cornell researchers is reimagining the convergence of architecture and biology to create a living, breathing building façade that reacts to its environment in real time, like an organism. Their work could help create climate-adaptable plants, prevent heart defects, treat brain cancer and design more sustainable buildings. The project upends the traditional genetic approach by looking at a meso-scale - a cellular community with a higher level of organization than genes, but a lower scale than organs.
Bio-inspired Art & Architecture
Art and architecture are natural left and right hands, but architecture has a long history of a relationship at a distance to science and scientific ideals. It has not taken full advantage of the opportunities that science has presented, particularly in the field of biomimetics. This article examines various pieces of art and architecture in the context of biology. Additionally, it also addresses on how history has incorporated bio-inspired designs into their practice which stimulates partnership between scientists and architects
Sustainable Designs
This article surveys a specific architect who combines bio-inspired art into her work, Jenny Sabin. “Jenny Sabin is intensely interested in the structures that support our buildings, but she finds her inspiration in the most unlikely places. Through her studies of immensely strong natural forms and networks— including cancer cells—and her collaborations with scientists, she is developing ways to build more resilient structures.” —Inga Saffron, architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer