Augmented Nature Bat Nursery

Species

Life Cycle

Analysis

CREDITS

Myotis sodalis 1.1 SPECIES

Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis)

The Indiana Bat has many diffrent nicknames; social bat, pink bat, or the little sooty bat. These nick names reflect this bats social nature and its range of visual characteristics. The Indiana Bat lives in midwestern, southern and eastern parts of the United States these locations are more limited in the winter than in the summer. This is because the bats roost in trees during the summer but are limited to suitable caves in the winter time. This specific enviromental requirement and threats like white-nose syndrome this bat is currently a federally and state endangered species.

Length: 3-3.5”

Wingspan: 9.5-10.5”

Diet: small insects

Ecolocation

Life Span: 14 years

Life cycle 1.2 SPECIES

Site

Indiana Bats Roost in the peeling bark of trees during the summer, when they raise their young.

These bats require specific site conditions to thrive. They require a specific balence of shelter and sun and often roost in along the forest edge in suitable trees that can be as far as 350 miles from their hibernaculum (winter habitat).

Primary roosts usually receive direct sunlight for more than half the day. Roost trees are often within canopy gaps in a forest, in a fenceline, or along a wooded edge. Habitats in which maternity roosts occur include riparian zones, bottomland and floodplain habitats, wooded wetlands and upland communities.

Generative process

3.1 DESIGN PROPOSAL Step 1

Elevation Analysis of tree form, identify suitable locations for bat habbitat.

Criteria: sheltered from elements, opurtunity to latch to bark.

Step 2

Create form from optimized habitat location

Generative process

3.1 DESIGN PROPOSAL Step 3

Analize generated form, identify prime bat niche locations.

Generative process

3.1 DESIGN PROPOSAL Step 5

Optimize depth and quanititie of niches for maximum bat habbitation with consideration of baby and mother bat habitat scale prefrances.

Step 6

Choose masses that provide maximum bat habbitation for square inch.

The solution to the limited availible habitiats that meet the Indiana Bats specific site requirements is to mimic the desired characteristics of known sumertime roosts. The characteristics that are modeled in the design are sheltered, scaled to the animal, adabtable to any tree that may not have the bark that suits the bat, but is ideally located near the hibernaculum and forest edge conditions

bat sized openings

optimized location based on slope

adaptable to any tree

3.3 DESIGN PROPOSAL

Iterations

Iteration Process

There where many ajustable parameters within my design, including quantity of niches, depth of the niches, diameter of my niches, and parameters that affected the general mass. Such as, range of slop tolerence, scale of mass, and smoothness of mass. All of these parameters can be ajusted to generate a range of forms with the same logic

The Mass is generated from suitable locations and form fits to the bark

Site

5.0 CREDITS

Ashley Fenner is a fifth year architecture student who will be graduating June of 2023. At her time of University of Oregon she has gained many intrests in sustainablity and working withen real world systems. Her intrest in architecture has pushed her to investigate how buildings can be healthy for humans and the enviroment. Through this investigation she has gained many postive experiences such as gaining her Passive House certification. Her intrest in architecutre also spans farther than buildings themselfs and has gained a landscape architecture minor and Public policy, Planning, and Management minor. These pursuits have given her more insite on how buildings can enritch their contects, push social change, and work in harmoney with there suroundings.

Ashley Fenner