Dennis Dollens (a professor teaching biodigital architecure at ESAQ, Barcelona) recently released an iphone app in comic book form dealing with generative structures from bio-algorithmic software. Treehugger wrote a spot about it here and it’s currently available at the iphone app …
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq336TAJb9A&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] The Biomimicry Guild and HOK Architects have begun various projects looking to nature for inspiration. This video shows thier developments as told by HOK associate Mary Ann Lazarus.
There’s a new green development trend of naturally purified and filtered residential pools that work much like a lake habitat. No need for nasty chemicals and chlorine since part of the the pool is dedicated to filtering and recycling the …
Kate Van Horn, also from Cal Poly Pomona, is designing a Mars Colony inspired by the growth patterns of Lichen. By looking at different methods of their growth, reproduction, and aggregation as they occur in nature, she has developed a …
William McDonough has designed a skyscraper that takes the idea of a tree as an entire living system and applies it to a responsible philosophy for a tower. McDonough argues that the tower, much similar to a tree, can produce …
Layla Shaikley is also working on the Catalyst City studio with Michael Fox. Her natural inspiration for Pomegenerate is the Durian plant which uses a semi rigid pressurized skin to protect its seeds housed inside. Shaikley has gone to great …
Dennis Dollens is a fervent biomimic. His well known work involves the idea of a tree-like structural system that houses glass leaf clusters designed to regulate ventilation and control light.
Andre Harris in his article Biomimetic 1.0 explains how he looked to the paradoxically lightweight yet ultra strong structure of bone found in the skulls of birds to inspire his design for a biomimetically optimized surface. We mentioned in an …
Metabolic Media (a design collaboration between Nobel scientist Sir John. E. Walker and designer Rachel Wingfield of Loop.ph Design Research Studio) have created a piece as part of a exhibit entitled Nobel Textiles. In short, textile designers were teamed up …
