Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 29, Issue 46, Pages 69327-69340Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-22342-z
Keywords
Biomimicry; Biomimicry level; Biomimicry approaches; Sustainable; Design method
Categories
Funding
- Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) of Universiti Putra Malaysia
- UMK-Fundamental Research
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Bio-inspired research in sustainable building design has the potential to inspire new ecological morals, address challenges, and create a healthy environment. By adopting biomimicry approaches and principles, building designs can become more ecologically sustainable, benefiting both humans and other living organisms, while safeguarding biodiversity.
There have been many studies on bio-inspired research, where biomimicry capabilities facilitating sustainable designs are in dearth. For a sustainable design, it is necessary to consider water efficiency, zero waste, thermal environment, and energy supply. This paper investigates how biomimicry is adopted in the sustainable design of buildings. A thorough content analysis of eight case studies focused on the built environment and how biomimicry integrated with the design of a building was executed. The selection of cases study was based on the concept of biomimicry by taking inspiration from nature and applying them in the everyday built environment. Thus, the building designs are more ecologically sustainable than conventional ones, where biomimicry approaches and principles are adopted. The findings suggest that the design of a building can inspire society with new ecological morals, where understanding of biological morphogenesis can inspire design to resolve challenges and essentially help create a healthy environment. Biomimicry harnesses and replicates the principles found in nature to create a built environment that benefits people and other living creatures and safeguards biodiversity. Thus, adopting biomimicry in designing a building will help to develop a culture of active environmental design.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available