PART B: CRITERIA DESIGN
PART B: CRITERIA DESIGN During Criteria Design, we learned how develop a particular technique or tectonic system using computational methods through case-study analysis, parametric modelling and physical prototypes.
B.1. RESEARCH FIELD Biomimicry
What is biomimicry? A nature-imitating search for new material effects, based on biological precedents – often referred to as biomimicry or biomimetics [1]. Biomimicry is a new discipline which refers to projects and researches about the functionality and performances of nature world. People involve in this discipline are biomimics [2]. They do not use the organisms in the design and innovation but only using the blueprints or the recipes from the organisms for innovation of new materials and designs. These create algorithm that can be put into a software program that analysis a minimum amount of material, as an organism must, for the maximum amount of strength of a parametric mode[3]. Therefore, biomimicry is an incredibly powerful way to innovate sustainable with new material and structure for designs which solves human problems.
1. Branko Kolarevic and Kevin R Klinger, Manufacturing Material Effects (New York: Routledge, 2008), p10 2. TED Talks, Biomimicry In Action, 2015 <https:// www.ted.com/talks/janine_benyus_biomimicry_in_ action?embed=true> [accessed 13 April 2015]. 3. Biomimicry Institute, ‘What Is Biomimicry? – Biomimicry Institute’, 2015 <http://biomimicry.org/ what-is-biomimicry/> [accessed 13 April 2015].
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