Honeycomb Morphologies by MATSYS
Matsys, a design firm based in San Francisco California is responsible for the Manifold Installation, an architectural application aiming to integrate design and performance similar to the structure of natural forms resulting from evolutionary forces. Images and diagrams below illustrate …
Yale Researchers Look to Bacteria for Network Inspiration
Researchers at Yale are looking into the computational organization of the bacterium E Coli to see why thinking systems in nature dont crash like thinking systems designed my man. Very interesting findings from century-hightech…
Biologically CONSTRUCTED Architecture: Welcome to Sandstone
AA student Magnus Larsson won the Holcim Foundation’s Awards for Sustainable Construction for his proposal to stop the sprawl of the Sahara desert by stabilizing it with the introduction of bacterium that could potentially convert large parts of the desert …
MAD Architects Look to the Honeycomb
MAD Architects have designed a tower and hotel to be built in Beijing inspired by the honeycomb nature of beehives. What seems like an undulating facade from far away is actually a regular grid of equally sized hexagons but with …
Chlorophilia: Xefirotarch's Vision of Future Los Angeles
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQukt36Gew0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] The History Channel challenged architects to create a vision for future infrastructure in major cities around the world. Xefirotarch submitted the above video for their vision of Los Angeles with help from film studio Imaginary Forces. We admit its …
Dennis Dollens Talks for TEDx about Biomimicry
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyBtuUf1sf4&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Our good friend Dennis Dollens talks at a TEDx event about the current trends in biomimicry and its application to architecture. Check out Dennis’s work here, he currently teaches bio-digital architecture at ESAQ Barcelona.
Biomimetic Tent Design by Ondrej Vaclavik
Designboom featured a Prague Academy of Arts tent design by Ondrej Vaclavik inspired by the vein structure of leaves. Below are some more renderings and illustrations of the project.
Biological/Metabolic Materials Applied to Architecture
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAMrtHC2Ev0&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Rachael Armstrong explains at TED how shes trying to establish a system based bottom up architecture made from living materials in conversation with the environment rather than the traditional model that takes natural materials in a dead and static …
Amazing New Development: Self Healing Bio-Concrete
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBR3PDPa-c&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Amazing new concept: concrete that’s embedded with bacterial and nutrient spheres alongside traditional aggregate that once exposed to distress or cracks in the concrete expand to fill it up with calcium carbonate, much like the way bones constantly self-heal …