Biomimetics for Architecture

Description

Biomimetics for Architecture: Learning from Nature

• Bionics – a fascinating border area between pure research and practical application
• Very readable and richly illustrated introduction
• With many practical examples

Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can also inspire the design of architecture.
Bionics is a fascinating border area between pure research and practical application: biologists, chemists, physicists, mineralogists, and paleontologists meet up with material scientists, engineers, and architects and transfer their knowledge to architecture and construction.
Using numerous practical examples, this richly illustrated introduction traces the process from the understanding of how something functions, to abstraction—for example in computer models—and the construction of initial prototypes, through to fully functional manufacture and production.

CONTENTS

• Preface
• Why biomimetics?, Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas

Everything Moves

• Introduction, Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas
• Plants In Action, Speck, Olga / Caliaro, Marco / Mader, Anja / Knippers, Jan
• Movement Without Joints: (How) Does It Work?, Betz, Oliver / Eggs, Benjamin / Henn, Fabian / Birkhold, Annette / Röhrle, Oliver
• No Joint Ailments: How Plants Move And Inspire Technology, Westermeier, Anna / Poppinga, Simon / Körner, Axel / Born, Larissa / Sachse, Renate / Saffarian, Saman / Knippers, Jan / Bischoff, Manfred / Gresser, Götz T. / Speck, Thomas
• From Pure Research To Biomimetic Products: The Flectofold Facade Shading Device, Saffarian, Saman / Born, Larissa / Körner, Axel / Mader, Anja / Westermeier, Anna S. / Poppinga, Simon / Milwich, Markus / Gresser, Götz T. / Speck, Thomas / Knippers, Jan

Lightweight Versatility: Structure Instead Of Mass

• Introduction, Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas
• Reliably Withstanding High Loads, Schmier, Stefanie / Bold, Georg / Buck, Gerald / Klang, Katharina / Lauer, Christoph / Toader, Nicu / Gericke, Oliver / Haase, Walter / Schäfer, Immanuel / Schmauder, Siegfried / Sobek, Werner / Nickel, Klaus G. / Speck, Thomas
  Freezing: The Right Way, Schott, Rena T. / Eurich, Lukas / Wagner, Arndt / Roth-Nebelsick, Anita / Ehlers, Wolfgang
• Nature As Source Of Ideas For Modern Manufacturing Methods, Wulle, Frederik / Kovaleva, Daria / Mindermann, Pascal / Christof, Hans / Wurst, Karl-Heinz / Lechler, Armin / Verl, Alexander / Sobek, Werner / Haase, Walter / Gresser, Götz T.
• Rosenstein Pavilion: a lightweight concrete shell based on principles of biological structures, Kovaleva, Daria / Gericke, Oliver / Wulle, Frederik / Mindermann, Pascal / Sobek, Werner / Verl, Alexander / Gresser, Götz T.

Elegance And Lightness: Bio-Inspired Domes

• Introduction, Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas
• Building principles and structural design of sea urchins: examples of bio-inspired constructions, Grun, Tobias B. / Scheven, Malte von / Geiger, Florian / Schwinn, Tobias / Sonntag, Daniel / Bischoff, Manfred / Knippers, Jan / Menges, Achim / Nebelsick, James H.
• Potential applications of segmented shells in architecture
  , chwinn, Tobias / Sonntag, Daniel / Grun, Tobias / Nebelsick, James H. / Knippers, Jan / Menges, Achim
• Snails as living 3D printers: free forms for the architecture of tomorrow, Allgaier, Christoph / Felbrich, Benjamin / Wulle, Frederik / Khechine, Emna / Nebelsick, James H. / Menges, Achim / Reiter, Günter / Reiter, Renate / Lechler, Armin / Verl, Alexander / Wurst, Karl-Heinz
• Evolutive approaches to explorative design methods in architecture, Malkowsky, Yaron / Ostendorf, Anna K. / Gessel, Nico van / Nguyen, Long / Lang, Daniel / Menges, Achim / Roth-Nebelsick, Anita / Reski, Ralf

Branched Load Support Systems

• Introduction, Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas
• From plant branchings to technical support structures, Bunk, Katharina / Jonas, Florian A. / Born, Larissa / Hesse, Linnea / Möhl, Claudia / Gresser, Götz T. / Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas / Masselter, Tom
• New branched loadbearing structures in architecture, Jonas, Florian A. / Born, Larissa / Möhl, Claudia / Hesse, Linnea / Bunk, Katharina / Masselter, Tom / Speck, Thomas / Gresser, Götz T. / Knippers, Jan
• The plastid skeleton: a source of ideas in the nano range, Özdemir, Bugra / Asgharzadeh, Pouyan / Birkhold, Annette / Röhrle, Oliver / Reski, Ralf
• Abstracting instead of copying: in search of the formula for success, Radde, Nicole / Paul, Debdas / Bischoff, Manfred
• Functionalist, organic, and biomimetic architecture, Bruyn, Gerd de / Betz, Oliver / Drack, Manfred / Limpinsel, Mirco / Nebelsick, James H.
• The biomimetic promise, Speck, Olga / Gantner, Johannes / Sedlbauer, Klaus / Horn, Rafael

208 pages, 208 Illustrations color, 16 Illustrations, black and white / 24.5 x 15 cm / English