Powering Our Future with Nature’s Blueprint–BICEPS
Imagine a project that’s like a smart system for powering our homes and buildings, using nature’s own tricks. It’s called BICEPS, short for Biomimetic Integrated …
thermal adaptation
Harnessing the Sun’s Whispers: Innovations Inspired by Unexpected Solar Radio Signals
Astronomers have made an exciting discovery that sounds like something straight out of a science fiction novel: they’ve detected unexpected radio signals coming from the …
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.
A Framework for Finding Inspiration in Nature
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.
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.