Engineers and designers often look to nature for ideas on how to solve technical issues. There is a caveat: over design in nature often leads to extinction and over design in engineering can lead to the same outcome. The KISS principle, “Keep it Simple Stupid” or “Keep it Super Simple” coined by Kelly Johnson, a lead engineer at the Lockhead Skunk Works, designers of the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, states that “systems work most efficiently if they are kept simple rather than made complex”.
Recently a New York company, Atelier DNA, won a “Land Art Generator” design award for Windstalks in which a simple design taken from nature, specifically a field of wheat reeds in a marsh, produces significant amounts of renewable energy.
Revolving blades go back at least as far as Rembrandt, the Dutch genius who painted beside rotating blades turning milling stones to grind wheat. Windstalks was the result of “trying to find kinetic models in nature that could be tapped to produce energy,” said Atelier DNA founding partner Darío Núñez-Ameni.
Engineers and designers often look to nature for ideas on how to solve technical issues. There is a caveat: over design in nature often leads to extinction and over design in engineering can lead to the same outcome. The KISS principle, “Keep it Simple Stupid” or “Keep it Super Simple” coined by Kelly Johnson, a lead engineer at the Lockhead Skunk Works, designers of the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, states that “systems work most efficiently if they are kept simple rather than made complex”.Recently a New York company, Atelier DNA, won a “Land Art Generator” design award for Windstalks in which a simple design taken from nature, specifically a field of wheat reeds in a marsh, produces significant amounts of renewable energy.Revolving blades go back at least as far as Rembrandt, the Dutch genius who painted beside rotating blades turning milling stones to grind wheat. Windstalks was the result of “trying to find kinetic models in nature that could be tapped to produce energy,” said Atelier DNA founding partner Darío Núñez-Ameni.
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