Natural by design
Biomimicry: the way of the future.
Biomomocry FAQs
What is biomomocry?
Bio- means life, and mimic means copy.
Biomimicry is the science of copying living things in the natural world.
Through thousands of years of evolution, nature has found the simplest, most efficient ways to do many things.
And it does most of them in a way that is safe for the Environment.
Designers who use Biomimicry study nature.
They find answers to today’s problems in the natural world.
Can you give some examples of Biomimicry?
There are many examples.
Here are two.
Ex. 1: car/boxfish
In 2005, DaimlerChrysler designed a new car.
It has many of the same Characterisrics as the boxfish.
Both the boxfish and the car are energy-efficient, powerful, and fast.
They can move well in small places.
They are able to survive a lot of pressure (from water or wind), and they have a strong outside covering.
The covering protects what is inside of them.
Ex. 2:building/termite mound
When an architect in Zimbabwe, Africa, was designing an office building, he got ideas from an African termite mound.
This kind of African termite mound.
This kind of African termite survives by eating the mold that grows inside its mound.
The mold only grows if the temperature inside the mound never changes.
But it is very hot in Zimbabwe.
Why doesn’t the mound get hotter control the temperature.
How do they do it?
Termites build their mounds so that air enters under the ground.
Why?
It is colder underground than on the land’s surface.
As the cool air rises, it cools the inside of the mound gets too cool, the termites make holes in the walls.
Then hot air from the outside enters the mound.
If the air inside gets too hot, the termites close the holes.
To make the office building energy efficient, the architect designed it like a termite mound.
Air enters the building under the ground.
Then vents (holes) in the building open and close all day to control the temperature.
The building costs 90 percent less to heat and cool than similar buildings in the same city.
Natural by design
Biomimicry: the way of the future.
Biomomocry FAQs
What is biomomocry?
Bio- means life, and mimic means copy.
Biomimicry is the science of copying living things in the natural world.
Through thousands of years of evolution, nature has found the simplest, most efficient ways to do many things.
And it does most of them in a way that is safe for the Environment.
Designers who use Biomimicry study nature.
They find answers to today’s problems in the natural world.
Can you give some examples of Biomimicry?
There are many examples.
Here are two.
Ex. 1: car/boxfish
In 2005, DaimlerChrysler designed a new car.
It has many of the same Characterisrics as the boxfish.
Both the boxfish and the car are energy-efficient, powerful, and fast.
They can move well in small places.
They are able to survive a lot of pressure (from water or wind), and they have a strong outside covering.
The covering protects what is inside of them.
Ex. 2:building/termite mound
When an architect in Zimbabwe, Africa, was designing an office building, he got ideas from an African termite mound.
This kind of African termite mound.
This kind of African termite survives by eating the mold that grows inside its mound.
The mold only grows if the temperature inside the mound never changes.
But it is very hot in Zimbabwe.
Why doesn’t the mound get hotter control the temperature.
How do they do it?
Termites build their mounds so that air enters under the ground.
Why?
It is colder underground than on the land’s surface.
As the cool air rises, it cools the inside of the mound gets too cool, the termites make holes in the walls.
Then hot air from the outside enters the mound.
If the air inside gets too hot, the termites close the holes.
To make the office building energy efficient, the architect designed it like a termite mound.
Air enters the building under the ground.
Then vents (holes) in the building open and close all day to control the temperature.
The building costs 90 percent less to heat and cool than similar buildings in the same city.
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