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Designed by CO-LAB Design Office, Luum Temple is part of the amenities of a new residential development called Luum Zama, in Tulum Mexico. The Luum Temple is a show case for sustainable development, it combines innovative design and engineering with artisanal building and organic sustainable materials. The project is a five sided catenary structure made from bamboo. The arched vaults support each other, co-existing in structural dependency. Both designs are a dome construction, and have similar features in parametric design, but the temple was design with the help of computers.

Designed by dECOi Architects, the project was for the penthouse offic- es of an investment group in green building and clean energy technolo- gies. The developed design was char- acterized parametrically, and early sketched design grasped the poten- tial for plastic control of the spatial and detail definition allowable within a fully CAD-CAM environment. Mul- tiple pillars in the building have the wood boards in this design, which look similar in form to the pillars in the Palau Guell carriage stable. Although the pillar may not be for structural reasons, because of being a “free plan,” the parametric design gives a natural atmosphere to the space.

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Inspired by the efficiency of nature, the company Strong By Form has developed Woodflow, a technology that generates wood panels of high structural performance, “combining the optimization of their shape, the orientation of their fibers in relation to the direction of stressors, and the variation in their density for better compression or traction,” as explained by its creators. In addition, all of their products are developed in a controlled process through parametric software, integrated into BIM platforms and CNC manufacturing systems. It is apparent from both Strong By Form and Antoni Gaudi that natural forms are very structurally sound. With the Sagrada Familia and the render, they visually show the inspiration from trees. By creating new sustainable designs, this is one great example to how engineering could change architecture in the futrue.

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East Gate Center

Although this building does not look like the Casa Mila on the exterior, a similar feature on the interior ties them together. This is the East Gate Center in Zimbabwe, which has a recent innovation of passive cooling and heating. The building’s passive HVAC system was inspired by termite mounds, as termites regulate their temperature through opening and closing vents throughout the day. This same concept is applied in the Casa Mila. As air at the bottom flows upward, it pushes the hot or cool air out the top. This is called Biomimetic architecture, where natural features are mimicked within structures to hold the same natural properties.

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