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Has Biomimicry in Architecture Arrived in France? Diversity of Challenges and Opportunities for a Paradigm Shift

open access: yesBiomimetics, 2022
Biomimicry is a growing field of developing environmental innovations for materials, facade systems, buildings, and urban planning. In France, we observe an extensive diversity of initiatives in biomimicry for the development of regenerative cities ...
Estelle Cruz   +3 more
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Sporopollenin, a natural copolymer, is robust under high hydrostatic pressure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Lycopodium sporopollenin, a natural copolymer, shows exceptional stability under high hydrostatic pressures (10 GPa) as determined by in situ high pressure synchrotron source FTIR spectroscopy.
Barsoum R. G. S.   +6 more
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Biological and ecological classification of biomimicry from a biology push standpoint

open access: yesEcosphere, 2019
Biomimicry refers to a cooperative process that develops a sustainable world by taking inspiration from the structure, function, process, and mechanism of an organism adapted to the environment through the evolution of nature.
Haejin Bae, Eunok Lee
doaj   +1 more source

Environmentally Responsive Materials for Building Envelopes: A Review on Manufacturing and Biomimicry-Based Approaches

open access: yesBiomimetics, 2023
Buildings must adapt and respond dynamically to their environment to reduce their energy loads and mitigate environmental impacts. Several approaches have addressed responsive behavior in buildings, such as adaptive and biomimetic envelopes.
Maria De Los Ángeles Ortega Del Rosario   +2 more
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Biomimetic Approach in Architectural Education: Case study of ‘Biomimicry in Architecture’ Course

open access: yesAin Shams Engineering Journal, 2019
Environmental aspects are crucial in designing sustainable buildings in relation to context. World is suffering from climate change due to green-house gas emissions.
Nihal Amer
doaj   +1 more source

A conceptual framework for circular design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Design has been recognised in the literature as a catalyst to move away from the traditional model of take-make-dispose to achieve a more restorative, regenerative and circular economy.
Charnley, Fiona   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Biomimicry in French Urban Projects: Trends and Perspectives from the Practice

open access: yesBiomimetics, 2021
Biomimicry is a design framework with growing interests in sustainable architectural and urban design practice. Nevertheless, there is a significant lack of studies and knowledge regarding its practical application.
Eduardo Blanco   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantum scale biomimicry of low dimensional growth: An unusual complex amorphous precursor route to TiO2 band confinement by shape adaptive biopolymer-like flexibility for energy applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Crystallization via an amorphous pathway is often preferred by biologically driven processes enabling living species to better regulate activation energies to crystal formation that are intrinsically linked to shape and size of dynamically evolving ...
이선영
core   +1 more source

Nature inspiration, imitation, and emulation: Biomimicry thinking path to sustainability in the construction industry

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2023
The construction industry has been globally fingered as the major sector responsible for the continued deplorable state of the environment. The rising exploitation of the natural environment by the sector decapacitates the function of the flora and fauna
Olusegun Aanuoluwapo Oguntona   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Ecosystems: Ecosystem-Oriented Architectures

open access: yes, 2011
We view Digital Ecosystems to be the digital counterparts of biological ecosystems. Here, we are concerned with the creation of these Digital Ecosystems, exploiting the self-organising properties of biological ecosystems to evolve high-level software ...
Briscoe, Gerard   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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