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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Main Authors: Najafi, Elaheh, Faizi, Mohsen, Khanmohammadi, Mohammad Ali
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/
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author Najafi, Elaheh
Faizi, Mohsen
Khanmohammadi, Mohammad Ali
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Faizi, Mohsen
Khanmohammadi, Mohammad Ali
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description 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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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:157622020-11-20T15:58:51Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/ Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice Najafi, Elaheh Faizi, Mohsen Khanmohammadi, Mohammad Ali 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. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/1/329-1535-1-PB.pdf Najafi, Elaheh and Faizi, Mohsen and Khanmohammadi, Mohammad Ali (2020) Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice. Journal of Building Performance, 11 (1). pp. 46-53. ISSN 2180-2106 http://spaj.ukm.my/jsb/index.php/jbp/issue/view/49
spellingShingle Najafi, Elaheh
Faizi, Mohsen
Khanmohammadi, Mohammad Ali
Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
title Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
title_full Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
title_fullStr Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
title_full_unstemmed Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
title_short Biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
title_sort biological inspiration in architectural design: reviewing the influence of the living world on architectural theory and practice
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15762/1/329-1535-1-PB.pdf