The Bio-Robotics lab at Carnegie Mellon is responsible for designing various robots that are inspired by animals to perform actions that mimic the motor capabilities found in nature. Check below for links to videos from their latest research.
Dr. Barbara Imhof and Dr. Petra Gruber have started the Biornametics art-based research project exploring “Architecture defined by natural patterns.” They are collaborating with the University of Reading Center for Biomimetics as well as the Institute of Micro-engineering and Nanoelectronics, …
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 …
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…
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 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 …
[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 …
[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.
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.
