The following Special Issue, for which Dr Negin Imani is serving as Guest Editor, will be published in Biomimetics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomimetics), and is now open for …
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.
Biomimicry has attracted the attention of scholars and architects because of its potential for contributing to the design of energy efficient buildings. Given the importance of energy efficient buildings in reducing global building energy consumption, the aim of this research was to investigate the practical usefulness of a framework developed for designing bio-inspired energy efficient office buildings.
The ThBA was developed by studying biology to find how thermal regulation strategies used by living organisms can be classified and generalised. The proposed ThBA was confirmed and evaluated before it was used for the rest of the research.
Testing the ThBA for two extreme climates in New Zealand, highlighted the fact that the simple translation of the majority of biological thermal adaptation principles are being used by architects, although for some, the architectural equivalents did not function in exactly in the same way as biological thermoregulation strategies.
