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Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design
Series: Biomimetics Series
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This book is ideal for architects, designers, and scholars interested in biomimicry, sustainable design, and innovative architectural solutions informed by nature.
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Applying Properties of Animal Skins to Inspire Architectural Envelopes
Biology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instil a shift in thinking about the application of biological principles to design and architecture. She focuses on the analysis of how organisms have adapted to different environments and translates the learned principles into the built environment. To illustrate the methodology, Mazzoleni draws inspiration from the diversity of animal coverings, referred to broadly as skin, and applies them to the design of building envelopes through a series of twelve case studies.
Skin is a complex organ that performs a multitude of functions; namely, it serves as a link between the body and the environment. Similarly, building envelopes act as interfaces between their inhabitants and external elements. The resulting architectural designs illustrate an integrative methodology that allows architecture to follow nature.
Ilaria Mazzoleni, in collaboration with biologist Shauna Price, has developed a profound methodology for architectural and design incentives that anticipates and proposes novel ways to explore undiscovered biological inspirations for various audiences.—Yoseph Bar-Cohen
Series: Biomimetics Series
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Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design
Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural Envelopes Biology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instil a shift in thinking about the application of biological principles to design and architecture. She focuses on the analysis of how...Paperback$11800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design
Applying Properties of Animal Skins to Inspire Architectural Envelopes Biology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instil a shift in thinking about the application of biological principles to design and architecture. She focuses on the analysis of how...Hardback$34100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Ocean Innovation
Ocean organisms employ engineering strategies which enable them to maintain life functions such as buoyancy and locomotion in a growing, self-repairing body. Ocean Innovation explores the possibilities of using these engineering feats in the human world. Each chapter presents a particular engineering problem and then looks to the organisms of the ocean for solutions. The book offers case studies that...Hardback$43500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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ISBN: 9781466506077
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 21 March 2013
Country: United States
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Illustration: 511 Illustrations, color
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 174.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 480g
Pages: 264
About the Author
Ilaria Mazzoleni is an architect and the founder of IM Studio Milano/Los Angeles. Her conceptual work has been published globally, and her built work can be found in Italy, California, and Ghana. Ilaria has gained attention in the fields of sustainable architecture and biomimicry. This has led to her being invited to participate in multiple international conferences and workshops and her written contributions are published in several international architectural magazines. Mazzoleni has been a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), CalPoly Pomona, and CalArts in Los Angeles. Her professional and academic investigation relates to sustainable architecture on all scales of design with a research focus on biomimicry, where innovation in architecture and design is inspired by the processes and functions of nature.
Collaborating with biologists and other scientists from top research institutions, her projects explore the connections between biotic and abiotic elements within eco-systems in order to develop sustainable urban planning strategies and address solutions to global climate change. An ongoing research program has centered on understanding how organisms have evolved and adapted to their environment, and applying that knowledge to design building façades. The conceptual implications arising from biomimetics and design have led to a body of work that investigates innovative material processes, forms, geometries and structural patterns.
Shauna Price is an evolutionary biologist focusing on speciation in neotropical insects. Her research examines the historical and ecological factors contributing to the high species diversity found in ants with the use of genetic tools, geological data, and morphological analyses. In addition to conducting research, Shauna has collaborated with Ilaria Mazzoleni and IM Studio MI/LA on multiple bio-inspired design projects. She contributes a strong background in ecology and evolution to these studies, with the perspective that inspiration in architecture and design can stem from organisms as small as microbes to broad ecosystem scales. In particular, symbiotic relationships—close, ongoing associations that have co-evolved between different species—inform her perspective in merging biology with design.
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Architecture Follows Nature-Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design
Applying Properties of Animals Skins to Inspire Architectural Envelopes Biology influences design projects in many ways; the related discipline is known as biomimetics or biomimicry. Using the animal kingdom as a source of inspiration, Ilaria Mazzoleni seeks to instil a shift in thinking about the application of biological principles to design and architecture. She focuses on the analysis of how...Paperback$11800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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