STRATEGIES OF BIO MIMICRY AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABILITY (APPLICATIONS IN SIMULATION FOR DESIGN COLLEGES' STUDENTS) | ||||
| Journal of Al-Azhar University Engineering Sector | ||||
| Article 29, Volume 15, Issue 54, January 2020, Page 324-338 PDF (492.35 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/auej.2020.73169 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Mahmoud Tarek Mohamed Ahmed Hammad | ||||
| Architectural Engineering Dept., Faculty of Engineering, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Strategies of bio mimicry are considered one of the most modern and vital trends, which affecting the architectural thinking and have an effective role in increasing the building efficiency towards its surrounding environment. Nature has been and remained the source of systems and processes. Due to its rules and principles, it could preserve the ecosystem through which design solutions could be drawn. Such solutions are more capable than humans, and the design thinking which combines biology and architecture and creating integration between building and nature is called science of bio mimicry. Such phenomenon has assisted the architectural applications on generating sustainable shapes that are more balanced to the surrounding environment, however some of these applications are superficial and depended on simulation of living shapes with ignoring the biological relationship between such shapes with their environment. Consequently, the research dilemma is represented in not utilizing, implicitly and in depth, from natural science in preparing architectural designs whether such science is physical or biology of the ecosystems for living organism and their principles that ensuring its internal cohesion, which in turn adapting with the environmental changes surrounding. Therefore, the study highlights the significance of studying the strategies and principles of bio mimicry, and utilized them and thus it is possible to create innovative design solutions to achieve more sustainable ecological balance. By studying the simulation techniques and highlight at certain applications utilized by at design works, the research has emphasized the importance of the integration of biology with nature, and this attitude of understanding such ecological systems could lead to developing a methodology for a sustainable ecological design, of which the environmental biology shall become a vital element integrated with ecological design systems. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Bio mimicry; Building efficiency; the Ecological System; biology; Integration; Architectural Applications; Nature Science; Environmental Balance; Sustainability | ||||
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