López, M;
Rubio, R;
Martín, S;
Croxford, B;
(2017)
How plants inspire façades. From plants to architecture: Biomimetic principles for the development of adaptive architectural envelopes.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
, 67
pp. 692-703.
10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.018.
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Abstract
Façades have an important role in the control of energy waste in buildings, nevertheless most of them are designed to provide static design solutions, wasting large amounts of energy to maintain the internal comfort. However, biological adaptation solutions are complex, multi-functional and highly responsive. This paper proposes a biomimetic research of the relationship that can be developed between Biology and Architecture in order to propose innovative façade design solutions. We focus on plants, because of plants, like buildings, lack of movement and remain subject to a specific location. Nevertheless, plants have adapted to the environment developing special means of interaction with changing external issues. This paper provides a methodology to create a data collection of plant adaptations and a design mapping to guide the transfer from biological principles to architectural resources, as well as two design concept cases, opening new perspectives for new possible technical solutions and showing the potential of plant adaptations to environmental conditions at a specific climate. Further step is the transformation of some design concepts into technical solutions through experiments with new technologies that include multi-material 3D printing or advances in material science.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | How plants inspire façades. From plants to architecture: Biomimetic principles for the development of adaptive architectural envelopes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.018 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2016.09.018 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016. This manuscript version is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. |
| Keywords: | Biomimicry; Adaptive architectural envelopes; Energy efficiency; Plant adaptations; Climate adaptations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1523344 |
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