Architecture Follows Nature Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design

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Architecture Follows Nature Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design

Author	: Ilaria Mazzoleni
File Size	: 47,5 Mb
Publisher	: CRC Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 21 March 2013
ISBN	: 9781466506091
Pages	: 254 pages

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Architecture Follows Nature Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design by Ilaria Mazzoleni Book PDF Summary

This full-color volume proposes an innovative methodology that uses the functional aspects of nature to inspire improvements in building design and form, encouraging designers to apply biomimetic principles to architectural processes. The book focuses on the analysis of various animal skins, translating the principles of communication, thermoregulation, water balance, and protection into the built environment. Illustrating how biomimetic principles can create a more sustainable way of building, this is the first time the author's new methodology-as well as the 12 case studies-has been published.

Architecture Follows Nature Biomimetic Principles for Innovative Design by Ilaria Mazzoleni

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