Title & Author:

Biomimetics for architecture : learning from nature / Jan Knippers, Ulrich Schmid, Thomas Speck (eds.).

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, [2019]
©2019

Description:

205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plan, portrait ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.
Preface / Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck -- Why biomimetics? / Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck -- Everything moves / Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck : Plants in action / Olga Speck, Marco Ocaliaro, Anja Mader, Jan Knippers ; Movement without joints: [how] does it work?/ Oliver Betz, Benjamin Eggs, Fabian Henn, Annette Birkhold, Oliver Röhrie ; No joint ailments: how plants move and inspire technology / Anna Westermeier, Simon Poppinga, Axel Körner, Larissa Born, Renate Sachse, Saman Saffarian, Jan Knippers, Manfred Bischoff, Götz T. Gresser, Thomas Speck ; From pure research to biomimetic products: the Flectofold facade shading device / Saman Saffarian, Larissa Born, Axel Körner, Anja Mader, Anna S. Westermeier, Simon Poppinga, Markus Milwich, Götz T. Gresser, Thomas Speck and Jan Knippers -- Lightweight versatility: structure instead of mass / Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck : Reliably withstanding high loads / Stefanie Schmier, Georg Bold, Gerald Buck, Katharina Klang, Christoph Lauer, Nicu Toader, Oliver Gericke, Walter Haase, Immanuel Schäfer, Siegfried Schmauder, Werner Sobek, Klaus G. Nickel, Thomas Speck ; Freezing: the right way / Rena T. Schott, Lukas Eurich, Arndt Wagner, Anita Roth-Nebelsick, Wolfgang Ehlers ; Nature as a source of ideas for modern manufacturing methods / Frederik Wulle, Daria Kovaleva, Pascal Mindermann, Hans Christof, Karl-Heinz Wurst, Armin Lechler, Alexander Verl, Werner Sobek, Walter Haase, Götz T. Gresser ; Rosenstein Pavilion: a lightweight concrete shell based on principles of biological structures / Daria Kovaleva, Oliver Gericke, Frederik Wulle, Pascal Mindermann, Werner Sobek, Alexander Verl, Götz T. Gresser -- Elegance and lightness: bio-inspired domes / Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck : Building principles and structural design of sea urchins: examples of bio-inspired constructions / Tobias B. Grun, Malte von Scheven, Florian Geiger, Tobias Schwinn, Daniel Sonntag, Manfred Bischoff, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, James H. Nebelsick ; Potential applications of segmented shells in architecture / Tobias Schwinn, Daniel Sonntag, Tobias Grun, James H. Nebelsick, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges ; Snails as living 3D printers: free forms for the architecture of tomorrow / Christoph Allgaier, Benjamin Felbrich, Frederik Wulle, Emna Khechine, James H. Nebelsick, Achim Menges, Günter Reiter, Renate Reiter, Armin Lechler, Alexander Verl, Karl-Heinz Wurst ; Evolution approaches to explorative design methods in architecture / Yaron Malkowsky, Anna K. Ostendorf, Nico van Gessel, Long Nguyen, Daniel Lang, Achim Menges, Anita Roth-Nebelsick, Ralf Reski -- Branched load support systems / Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck : From plant branchings to technical support structures / Katharina Bunk, Florian A. Jonas, Larissa Born, Linnea Hesse, Claudia Möhl, Götz T. Gresser, Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck, Tom Masselter ; New branched loadbearing structures in architecture / Florian A. Jonas, Larissa Born, Claudia Möhl, Linnea Hesse, Katharina Bunk, Tom Masselter, Thomas Speck, Götz T. Gresser, Jan Knippers ; The plastid skeleton: a source of ideas in the nano range / Bugra Özdemir, Pouyan Asgharzadeh, Annette Birkhold, Oliver Röhrle, Ralf Reski -- Abstracting instead of copying; in search of the formula for success / Nicole Radde, Debdas Paul, Manfred Bischoff -- Functionalist, organic, and biomimetic architecture Gerd de Bruyn, Oliver Betz, Manfred Drack, Mirco Limpinsel, James H. Nebelsick -- The biomimetic promise / Olga Speck, Johannes Gantner, Klaus Sedlbauer, Rafael Horn.

Exhibitions:

"This book is a slightly revised and extended version of the volume that was published n the occasion of the Baubionik-Biologie beflügelt Architektur exhibition, that took place from [19] October 2017 to [6] May 2018 at the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart." - preface, page 7.

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.

ISBN:

9783035617863 (hardcover)
3035617864 (hardcover)

Subject:

Architecture and biology Exhibitions.
Architectural design Exhibitions.
Biomimetics Exhibitions.
Architecture et biologie Expositions.
Design architectural Expositions.
Chimie biomimétique Expositions.
Architectural design
Architecture and biology
Biomimetics

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Knippers, Jan, editor.
Schmid, Ulrich, 1957- editor.
Speck, Thomas, editor.
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305541
Call No.: BIB 251507
Status: Available