ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INFLUENCE FROM BIOMIMICRY

The connection between architecture and biology and the starting points for biomimetics in architecture are in the design of projects, where innovation is needed, especially in cases like this as identified by Petra Gruber (2011). The term “Biomimicry” is coined by a Janine Benyus, as a new science that studies nature's models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems (Benyus 1997). Biomimicry approach incorporates the ecological design by looking to Nature as a Model, Measure, and Mentor and emphasizes sustainability as an objective of Biomimicry (Benyus 1997).