Putting Nature Back into Human Nature
Celebrating 25 years since Janine Benyus’ book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature was first published! Together we can put nature back into human nature. Special …
building design
Thermo-Bio-Architectural Framework (ThBA)
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.
Energy Efficiency and Biomimetics
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.