Can Biomimicry Be a Useful Tool for Design for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation?

Zari, Maibritt Pedersen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09287-4_4

“…In literature (Badarnah 2012;Gamage and Hyde 2012;Pedersen Zari 2010;Knippers and Speck 2012;Mazzoleni 2010;Gruber 2011b), several barriers that currently hinder the transfer of relevant biological solutions have been identified:…”

Section: Design Support Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following biomimetic literature, the types of bioinspiration can be classified in one of the following three groups, (a) form, (b) function, and (c) process (Pedersen Zari 2010).…”

Section: Overview and Analysis Of Bio-inspired Facadesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bio-inspired Adaptive Building Skins

Loonen

¹

2014

Biotechnologies and Biomimetics for Civil Engineering

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How do living organisms capture, convert, store and process energy, water and sunlight? How does nature cool down, heat up, provide shade, and control light? Adaptability, the ability of a system to act in response to variations in environmental conditions often plays a key role in this context. Unlike living organisms, buildings are typically conceived as static, inanimate objects. Because a building's surroundings and internal conditions are constantly changing, there is a lot to learn about how inspiration from nature can foster more adaptability of the façade for enhanced building performance. After highlighting the need for more adaptability in the built environment, this chapter reviews state-of-the-art examples of research concepts and design applications with bio-inspired adaptable solutions for the building envelope. All examples are in the scope of building physics and energy efficiency with a focus on improving indoor environmental quality. The chapter concludes with an outlook of design support methodologies that can potentially incite the practical uptake of bio-inspired adaptive building skins in the future.

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“…Several noteworthy examples of biomimetic architecture or technologies that can assist the built environment in adapting to climate change or becoming an agent of ecological health are examined by Pedersen Zari [22], Pawlyn [26], Vincent et al [23] and Vogel [27]. Ecosystem biomimicry, that is the emulation of how whole ecosystems function and the ways in which they work, may be the most effective kind of biomimicry to respond to climate change and biodiversity loss in the context of architectural and urban design [28]. This is because ecosystem biomimicry fits into a paradigm of whole systems thinking and change, rather than the design of single components.…”

Section: Biomimicry For Regenerative Built Environmentsmentioning

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Biomimicry for regenerative built environments: mapping design strategies for producing ecosystem services (Keynote)

Zari¹

2021

Preprint

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Built environment professionals must solve urgent and complex problems related to mitigating and adapting to climate change and biodiversity loss. Cities require redesign and retrofit so they can become complex systems that create rather than diminish ecological and societal health. One way to do this is to strategically design buildings and cities to generate and provide ecosystem services. This is an aspect of biomimicry, where whole ecosystems and their functions are emulated, in order to positively shift the ecological performance of buildings and urban settings. A small number of methodologies and frameworks for ecosystem services design have been proposed, but their use is not wide spread. A key barrier is the lack of translational work between ecology concepts and practical examples of ecosystem services design for a built environment context. In response, this paper presents research underpinning the creation of a qualitative relational diagram in an online interactive format that relates ecosystem services concepts to design strategies, concepts, technologies, and case studies in a format for use by built environment professionals. The paper concludes that buildings and whole cities should be expected to become active contributors to socio-ecological systems because, as the diagram shows, many strategies and technologies to enable this already exist.

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“…Several noteworthy examples of biomimetic architecture or technologies that can assist the built environment in adapting to climate change or becoming an agent of ecological health are examined by Pedersen Zari [22], Pawlyn [26], Vincent et al [23] and Vogel [27]. Ecosystem biomimicry, that is the emulation of how whole ecosystems function and the ways in which they work, may be the most effective kind of biomimicry to respond to climate change and biodiversity loss in the context of architectural and urban design [28]. This is because ecosystem biomimicry fits into a paradigm of whole systems thinking and change, rather than the design of single components.…”

Section: Biomimicry For Regenerative Built Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biomimicry for Regenerative Built Environments: Mapping Design Strategies for Producing Ecosystem Services

Zari

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Hecht

²

2020

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Built environment professionals must solve urgent and complex problems related to mitigating and adapting to climate change and biodiversity loss. Cities require redesign and retrofit so they can become complex systems that create rather than diminish ecological and societal health. One way to do this is to strategically design buildings and cities to generate and provide ecosystem services. This is an aspect of biomimicry, where whole ecosystems and their functions are emulated, in order to positively shift the ecological performance of buildings and urban settings. A small number of methodologies and frameworks for ecosystem services design have been proposed, but their use is not wide spread. A key barrier is the lack of translational work between ecology concepts and practical examples of ecosystem services design for a built environment context. In response, this paper presents research underpinning the creation of a qualitative relational diagram in an online interactive format that relates ecosystem services concepts to design strategies, concepts, technologies, and case studies in a format for use by built environment professionals. The paper concludes that buildings and whole cities should be expected to become active contributors to socio-ecological systems because, as the diagram shows, many strategies and technologies to enable this already exist.

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Can Biomimicry Be a Useful Tool for Design for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation?

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Biomimicry for regenerative built environments: mapping design strategies for producing ecosystem services (Keynote)

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