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Nature inspired architecture
AR-494
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Language:
English
Remarque
pas donné en 2017-18Summary
Nature inspired architecture is an approach that looks at how other organisms have solved the same engineering problems we are facing today and then applies these solutions to create new forms, functions and systems. Like,passive cooling mechanisms inspired by ant ventilation.Content
Courses:
- Introduction to Biomimicry
- Biomimicry in Architecture
- Life's Principals
- Living Buildings: Form and Function
- Living buildings: Skin (materials)
- Living buildings: metabolism (independent entities, capture water, produce energy, clean air, regulate temperature, move).
Seminar: 2 external speakers (architect, designer, biologist).
Field trips: observing nature, asking why, understanding natures design (Botanical Garden, Lausanne Aquarium, Natural History Museum of Lausanne).
Design challenge ' applying natur einspired thinking to a specific architecture problem.
Keywords
bioinspired, nature inspired, biomimicry, sustainable architecture.
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
none
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:- Apply bioinspired thinking to any engineering problem.
- Design your own bioinspired solution.
- Assess / Evaluate your design agains life's principals.
- Optimize your design in energy and materials.
Teaching methods
Courses, individual exercises and group work on a project.
Assessment methods
Exercises 30%, design challenge 70%.
Resources
Bibliography
Biomimicry in Architecture, Michael Pawlyn, 2011.
Built to grow-Blending architecture with biology, Ed. by Imhof, Barbara / Gruber, Petra, (Edition Angewandte) 2016.
In the programs
- SemesterSpring
- Exam formDuring the semester
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2 - Subject examined
Nature inspired architecture - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 12 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterSpring
- Exam formDuring the semester
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Nature inspired architecture - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 12 weeks
- Semester
- SemesterSpring
- Exam formDuring the semester
- Credits
2 - Subject examined
Nature inspired architecture - Lecture
2 Hour(s) per week x 12 weeks
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- Lecture in French
- Lecture in English
- Lecture in German