Archinect - News2024-05-04T15:29:04-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/93730860/will-the-buildings-of-the-future-be-grown-underwater
Will the buildings of the future be grown underwater? Alexander Walter2014-02-17T14:40:00-05:00>2014-02-24T18:31:44-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/55ad045671c0766082c7e16cbc30eec9?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In a new exhibition, Michael Pawlyn lays out his vision for architecture inspired by the natural world – including biorock buildings grown entirely underwater and whole office blocks being lit by learning from the blind sea star. [...]
“All my work is driven by a frustration with the word ‘sustainable’,” he says. “It suggests something that is just about good enough, but we need to be looking at truly restorative solutions.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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https://archinect.com/news/article/38983640/biomimicry-in-architecture-and-the-start-of-the-ecological-age
Biomimicry in architecture and the start of the Ecological Age Archinect2012-02-22T14:11:03-05:00>2016-03-31T09:18:53-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/57/57b2bae213e165b488019f68acc6119f?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Some aspects of biomimicry have been played around with for a long time for example mimicking the structure of termite mounds. There have been a lot of architects who have toyed with biomimicry, but have been quite dependent on seductive imagery such as spiders' webs, but often the designs haven't been seen through in a particularly thorough way. Sometimes the examples from nature are just used as a departure point for developing original and whacky forms.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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