‘BIOMIMICRY’ - SPIRAL PATTERNS

Year: 2021

Elective Semester 9 - Habitat and Shelter Form

Role: Research, Concept Development, Designing

Project Brief:

Shelter for human adaptation has evolved over the last centuries in terms of its form. Nature has a huge role to play in the making of this forms. Architectural innovations has been inspired by PATTERNS IN NATURE to arrive at design solutions to solve human problems.

Evidence of this can be seen from ancient age to architecture by master architects lately who haven been designing buildings that are inspired by nature and compliment it as well. Thus this elective helped in studying the concept of BIOMIMICRY in architecture and ideas of shelter based on designs inspired from pattern in nature.

BIOMIMICRY PATTERN - SPIRAL

The design is evolved by taking spiral pattern inspiration from tail of a chameleon. The functions of chameleon’s tail is thus analysed and the strategy behind it is studied.

Thus , a tourist watch tower as a monument is designed taking inspiration from chameleons’s tail. The tower thus captivates similar functions ( anchoring, stability , movement ) . As a result,studying nature’s models helps to emulates these forms, processes, systems, and strategies to solve human problems.