Living Cities Take Root
The ThBA suggests innovative thermoregulation strategies that could address opportunities for designing a new generation of buildings.
Working Towards Our Sustainable and Equitable Future in the Asia-Pacific
In support of the APEC Voices of the Future project, the Centres of Asia-Pacific Excellence hosted a webinar on 5 October 2021 featuring three top …
NZGBC Future Thinker of the Year 2021 Awards Evening
We are excited to hold the NZGBC Future Thinker of the Year 2021 Awards Evening on 13th April 2021. The awards ceremony is hosted by Huri te …
Hybrid Endothermic-Ectothermic Buildings?
Heat generation is a characteristic of endotherms and maybe that is the reason architects are more interested in animals.
Living Pipes For Buildings Climate Change Adaptation
In vasoconstriction, thermal regulation happens through heat transfer between blood vessels and skin, these being the internal and peripheral tissues. Thinking of blood vessels as pipes with a fluid flow transferring the thermal energy to where it is demanded in a building, the smaller the diameter of the pipes, the less fluid will flow, and thus, the less heat will be taken away through conduction and convection, due to the temperature difference between the pipes and the adjacent surfaces.
Bringing Buildings To Life
Could buildings imitate living organisms? Negin Imani has created a tool translating natural thermoregulation strategies into architectural solutions.
Biomimetic Thermal Regulation in Buildings
While several biological thermal adaptation strategies are currently translated to and employed in sustainable building design, they, represent at best a simple translation of the intricate mechanisms of thermal adaptation in nature.
A Big Jump From Biomimicry
A new generation of buildings could be fully-automated, smart buildings that exactly imitate what a living organism does. This requires the architecturally-equivalent thermoregulation solution to function in exactly in the same way as biological strategies do, including almost every aspect of a living being: locomotion, reproduction, growth and development, and respiration, with a complex hierarchical organisation of components
Biologists Confirm the Inclusiveness of Biomimetic Design Tool for Building Energy Efficiency
Biologist confirmed the ThBA is effective in bridging biology and architecture based on the existing thermal challenges in buildings, and is comprehensive in terms of generalising biological thermal adaptation strategies.