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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
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
Description based on 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
Form Electronic book
Author Knippers, Jan, editor
Schmid, Ulrich, 1957- editor
Speck, Thomas, editor
Walter de Gruyter & Co
ISBN 9783035617917
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9783035617894
3035617899