The growing presence of biomimicry in architectural design takes the spotlight in Hypernatural: Architecture's New Relationship with Nature, authored by architecture and materials academic experts Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer from the University of Minnesota. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, Hypernatural highlights 42 case-study projects that demonstrate a fresh array of possible applications in the evolving relationship between the built environment and Mother Nature.
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(Top) Echoviren; (Bottom): The Cloud | Photos courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press.
Hypernatural features a foreword by Michael Weinstock, an Introduction to the book, and an international collection of 42 case-studies. A few of the projects include the botanical Echoviren pavilion that was designed to wilt into its redwood forest environment in Northern California; the BIQ House and its microalgae SolarLeaf facade; schmidt hammer lassen's The Cloud pavilion at the 2013 Shanghai West Bund Biennial; Asif Khan's "Megafaces" at the Sochi Winter Olympics; and MIT Media Lab’s Silk Pavilion -- which silkworms "built" by their own threads as they inched about over scaffolding.
From top to bottom: MegaFaces; Bricktopia; BIQ House; Bubble | Photos courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press.
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