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 …
A building concept envisioned for the new urban boom in China is proposing an advanced skin system that, similar to the stomata on the under side of the leaf, provides opportunities for controlling the gaseous exchange between the interior and …
Exploration Architecture is running in the direction of biomimetic architecture while it seems the rest of the world is slowly crawling. They’ve worked extensively with Janine Benyus of the Biomimicry Guild on various projects. Perhaps the most popular is their …
Plant stability comes from internal expandable hydrostat pressure, when the plant dehydrates the plant looses stability – The stem evolves differently in water compared to air (below the principle is used in an artificial hip)
