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Title Biomimetics for architecture : learning from nature / Jan Knippers, Ulrich Schmid, Thomas Speck (eds.)
Published Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Why biomimetics? / Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas -- Everything Moves -- Introduction / Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas -- Plants In Action / Speck, Olga / Caliaro, Marco / Mader, Anja / Knippers, Jan -- Movement Without Joints: (How) Does It Work? / Betz, Oliver / Eggs, Benjamin / Henn, Fabian / Birkhold, Annette / Röhrle, Oliver -- No Joint Ailments: How Plants Move And Inspire Technology / Westermeier, Anna / Poppinga, Simon / Körner, Axel / Born, Larissa / Sachse, Renate / Saffarian, Saman / Knippers, Jan / Bischoff, Manfred / Gresser, Götz T. / Speck, Thomas -- From Pure Research To Biomimetic Products: The Flectofold Facade Shading Device / Saffarian, Saman / Born, Larissa / Körner, Axel / Mader, Anja / Westermeier, Anna S. / Poppinga, Simon / Milwich, Markus / Gresser, Götz T. / Speck, Thomas / Knippers, Jan -- Lightweight Versatility: Structure Instead Of Mass -- Introduction / Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas -- Reliably Withstanding High Loads / Schmier, Stefanie / Bold, Georg / Buck, Gerald / Klang, Katharina / Lauer, Christoph / Toader, Nicu / Gericke, Oliver / Haase, Walter / Schäfer, Immanuel / Schmauder, Siegfried / Sobek, Werner / Nickel, Klaus G. / Speck, Thomas -- Freezing: The Right Way / Schott, Rena T. / Eurich, Lukas / Wagner, Arndt / Roth-Nebelsick, Anita / Ehlers, Wolfgang -- Nature As Source Of Ideas For Modern Manufacturing Methods / Wulle, Frederik / Kovaleva, Daria / Mindermann, Pascal / Christof, Hans / Wurst, Karl-Heinz / Lechler, Armin / Verl, Alexander / Sobek, Werner / Haase, Walter / Gresser, Götz T. -- Rosenstein Pavilion: a lightweight concrete shell based on principles of biological structures / Kovaleva, Daria / Gericke, Oliver / Wulle, Frederik / Mindermann, Pascal / Sobek, Werner / Verl, Alexander / Gresser, Götz T. -- Elegance And Lightness: Bio-Inspired Domes -- Introduction / Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas -- Building principles and structural design of sea urchins: examples of bio-inspired constructions / Grun, Tobias B. / Scheven, Malte von / Geiger, Florian / Schwinn, Tobias / Sonntag, Daniel / Bischoff, Manfred / Knippers, Jan / Menges, Achim / Nebelsick, James H. -- Potential applications of segmented shells in architecture / Schwinn, Tobias / Sonntag, Daniel / Grun, Tobias / Nebelsick, James H. / Knippers, Jan / Menges, Achim -- Snails as living 3D printers: free forms for the architecture of tomorrow / Allgaier, Christoph / Felbrich, Benjamin / Wulle, Frederik / Khechine, Emna / Nebelsick, James H. / Menges, Achim / Reiter, Günter / Reiter, Renate / Lechler, Armin / Verl, Alexander / Wurst, Karl-Heinz -- Evolutive approaches to explorative design methods in architecture / Malkowsky, Yaron / Ostendorf, Anna K. / Gessel, Nico van / Nguyen, Long / Lang, Daniel / Menges, Achim / Roth-Nebelsick, Anita / Reski, Ralf -- Branched Load Support Systems -- Introduction / Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas -- From plant branchings to technical support structures / Bunk, Katharina / Jonas, Florian A. / Born, Larissa / Hesse, Linnea / Möhl, Claudia / Gresser, Götz T. / Knippers, Jan / Speck, Thomas / Masselter, Tom -- New branched loadbearing structures in architecture / Jonas, Florian A. / Born, Larissa / Möhl, Claudia / Hesse, Linnea / Bunk, Katharina / Masselter, Tom / Speck, Thomas / Gresser, Götz T. / Knippers, Jan -- The plastid skeleton: a source of ideas in the nano range / Özdemir, Bugra / Asgharzadeh, Pouyan / Birkhold, Annette / Röhrle, Oliver / Reski, Ralf -- Abstracting instead of copying: in search of the formula for success / Radde, Nicole / Paul, Debdas / Bischoff, Manfred -- Functionalist, organic, and biomimetic architecture / Bruyn, Gerd de / Betz, Oliver / Drack, Manfred / Limpinsel, Mirco / Nebelsick, James H. -- The biomimetic promise / Speck, Olga / Gantner, Johannes / Sedlbauer, Klaus / Horn, Rafael -- Appendix
Summary Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment. The analysis of biological constructions can not only lead to astonishing technical solutions but can also inspire the design of architecture. Bionics is a fascinating border area between pure research and practical application: biologists, chemists, physicists, mineralogists, and paleontologists meet up with material scientists, engineers, and architects and transfer their knowledge to architecture and construction. Using numerous practical examples, this richly illustrated introduction traces the process from the understanding of how something functions, to abstraction-for example in computer models-and the construction of initial prototypes, through to fully functional manufacture and production
Analysis Architecture
Biology
Biomimetic Architecture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Natural History Museum, Stuttgart, 19 October 2017 - 6 May 2018
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2019)
Subject Architecture and biology -- Exhibitions
Architectural design -- Exhibitions
Biomimetics -- Exhibitions
Architectural design
Architecture and biology
Biomimetics
Genre/Form exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Form Electronic book
Author Knippers, Jan, editor.
Schmid, Ulrich, 1957- editor.
Speck, Thomas, editor.
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, host institution.
ISBN 9783035617917
3035617910
9783035617894
3035617899