Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
Analogy is a main cognitive source, which helps to understand new ideas and fosters creativity. Making analogy has a significant role in the architectural design thinking process and creating architectural concepts. The living nature has been always a great source of inspiration for the architect...
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| Language: | English |
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/1/329-1535-1-PB.pdf |
| Summary: | Analogy is a main cognitive source, which helps to understand new ideas and fosters creativity.
Making analogy has a significant role in the architectural design thinking process and creating
architectural concepts. The living nature has been always a great source of inspiration for the
architects during history. Biological inspiration can be traced in various aspects of architectural theory
and practice during the history. In the present research, different aspects of the influence of living
nature and biology are investigated after an extensive literature review and classified in categories
including as bio-utilization, inspiration in form, structure, mechanism, process, function, system, theory,
abstract rule and concept. Accordingly, only some aspects of biological inspiration can be considered
as biological analogies, including structure, mechanism, process, function, system, abstract rule and
theory. Studying the history of bio-inspired architecture showed a gradual move from biological
morphology, which was a superficial similarity, towards the deeper aspects of biological analogies in
bionic design. It is because; bionic provides a deeper understanding of living nature. Besides, more
efficient, optimized, and sustainable architecture could be achieved through the inspiration of deeper
biological analogies in comparison to the superficial similarities. |
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