Incorporating Biomimicry into the Design Process to Attain Optimization

Abstract

The cities are one of the major resource consuming areas and do most harm to the biodiversity of the surrounding region, and they are gradually growing throughout these years, depleting the flora and fauna of the surrounding context. The rise of skyscrapers and massive buildings creates a concrete jungle, it can be classified as a new type of biome created for the needs of humans. But all other species are struggling to adapt to this environment which has over taken their natural environment. We cannot change that but we can improve our efficiency in terms of resource consumption, so that we do not use up resource which are meant for their use. How do we start using resources efficiently? We can learn that from nature, due to evolution everything in nature have been optimised to its best. So instead of learning from trial and error we can focus on learning from nature, this is imitation of nature is called Biomimicry. The aim of this paper is to derive a series of steps that can make any design process biomimetic. To achieve this, we look into buildings that have been able to incorporate biomimicry, and deciphering what they have done differently from the rest.