Biomimicry
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about biomimicry
Progetto • By Casagrande Laboratory • Padiglioni
CICADA
Cicada is an organic void in the mechanical texture of modern Taipei, a cocoon for post-industrial metamorphosis for industrial insects. The architecture is based on the Local Knowledge of human scale flexible bamboo structures containing a high level of improvisation and insect mind - Open Form.
The Cicada is situated on a site in central Taipei waiting for development. Mean while it acts as a public sphere for the surrounding neighborhood and as lounge for university workshops and other spontaneous activities - public space.
As one enters the Cicada, the surrounding city disappears. The cocoon is an interior space but totally outside - it is breathing, vibrating, soft and safe. The space will swollow the modern man and will offer hi... Altro
Prodotto • By Freund GmbH • Evergreen - Natural moss-walls
Evergreen - Natural moss-walls
Natural moss-walls
The real Evergreen never fades away...
The natural moss-panels serve as decoration elements for the design of walls, ceiling and other interior elements.
While other green walls need to be constantly provided with proper humidity and lighting, the maintenance-free Evergreen panels always sustain their rich green colour.
This soft material will captivate you and leave you with a lasting impression.
Through its special characteristics Evergreen creates a unique atmosphere as well as brings in a touch of the natural world into your construction project.
Important characteristics:
- maintenance-free (anti-static)
- acoustically damping (up to 90% sound absorption)
- can be installed on the large surfaces
- seaml... Altro
Wine Museum
“The dynamics of line and surface define the templates that create architecture and organisations. In the making of form it is not only shape that counts but the rules and interior logic by which such contours are derived”. _Cecil Balmond
We wanted to build from first principles and our own prescriptions of form based on interior dynamics that grow they own logic. The approach is to accept as irreducible the notion of complexity; a holistic view, one that is different from the traditional methods of drawing sections and plans and then extruding or patching them to make buildings. A form is not only a building but can be viewed as structure or sculpture-any organisation that interrogates space in new ways.
How to integrate a 100 m high... Altro
Prodotto • By Studio Drift • SHYLIGHT
SHYLIGHT
SHYLIGHT is a lamp living in a shell. When the sun shines or the music plays, they open up and float down in the air and dance. The lamps are based on natural processes of flowers attracting and rejecting bees. There are three different shapes in this family of SHYLIGHTS. The fall distance and light intensity of each SHYLIGHT is individually programmable with a computer or smart phone which also works as a remote control. Altro
Prodotto • By Studio Drift • DANDELIGHT
DANDELIGHT
DANDELIGHT is a small luminous dandelion designed by Lonneke Gordijn. Made with extreme care in our studio in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, this small piece of authentic nature reveals a perfect union between fragile nature and modern electronics. Powered by a simple battery DANDELIGHT lights up exposing its unprecedented beauty.
Every single DANDELIGHT is handmade and comes with a signed letter and an instruction on how to take good care of the light. The real dandelion seeds, secured one by one to the led-light, are lasting, though require very careful handling. Therefore we designed a special packaging to ensure that the DANDELIGHT will be transported safely to you.
DANDELIGHT was the basic idea for FRAGILE FUTURE, a modular light... Altro
Progetto • By Rolando Barahona y Asociados. • Alloggi Privati
Los Hongos House 1983
Casa Los Hongos se ubica en una hacienda con clima tropical húmedo de baja precipitación en Pijije, Guanacaste. Costa Rica. El sitio localizado a la vera del río Pijije fue seleccionado con dos varillas de bronce y un péndulo aplicando factores energéticos de geobiología -la ciencia del habitat-. El arquitecto detecta dos puntos de energía concetrada y decide crear dos sólidas estructuras de hormigón generadoras de sombra y conductoras de viento que parecieran nacer de la piedra y el agua inspiradas en la morfología de unos hongos. Los espacios de intercambio, reunión y circulaciones se disponen suspendidos, flotantes bajo la sombra de estos hongos, teniendo así contacto visual con el entorno en todas las direcciones. El agua se convierte e... Altro
Prodotto • By DEDON® • NESTREST collection by Daniel Pouzet & Fred Frety
NESTREST collection by Daniel Pouzet & Fred Frety
Thanks to its cosy, protective, organic structure, NESTREST transforms your typical garden sofa into a small architectural piece, one that offers you a secluded, suspended sanctuary as it gently rocks you and puts you at ease like a warm embrace. It’s the perfect place for relaxation, meditation and open-air conversations. Created by Fred Frety & Daniel Pouzet, two longtime collaborators of DEDON design partner Jean-Marie Massaud, NESTREST was inspired by the shapes, textures and colors found in nature, and by the sophisticated design of certain bird nests. It is constructed out of a new, specially created DEDON Fiber, four centimeters wide, guaranteeing a sturdy and solid weave that is open, breathable and private, allowing those shelt... Altro
Progetto • By Pacific Environments NZ Ltd • Spazi Verdi Urbani
Treehouse Restaurant Inspired By Nature
A striking pod-shaped structure built ten metres high in a redwood tree near Warkworth, north of Auckland, will soon become home to what is believed to be New Zealand’s only treehouse restaurant.
The treehouse is the focus of a new and unusual advertising campaign for Yellow (currently on TVNZ and online).
The Yellow campaign follows Aucklander Tracey Collins’ real-life mission to build a restaurant in a tree using only Yellow - the book, online and mobile.
Peter Eising and his team at Pacific Environment Architects, who were chosen through Yellow, say the project has been a unique challenge.
“I haven’t designed a treehouse since my childhood, let alone built a restaurant in one,” Mr Eising said.
“The brief was ideal for... Altro
Prodotto • By Arper SPA • Leaf
Leaf
Sottili allusioni alle imperfezioni della natura danno vita a silhouette sinuose e iconiche: dalle forme delle superfici dei tavoli— simili a sassi levigati dall’acqua — all’irregolarità del disegno nelle strutture di tavoli e sedute, che ricordano i rami di un albero o la nervature di una foglia.Leaf è un manifesto: un’immagine allo stesso tempo nostalgica e avveniristica.
Sedia, sedia impilabile, lounge, sgabelli in due altezze e tavoli. Le sedute sono realizzate in acciaio opaco verniciato a polveri, nei colori bianco, verde e moka e possono essere completate con un cuscino in poliuretano, da utilizzare per esterni o interni. Perfetto per il relax e per la casa, il tavolo Leaf è l... Altro
Progetto • By West 8 • Parchi/Giardini
Miami Beach Soundscape / Lincoln Park
Miami Beach Soundscape / Lincoln Park, designed by Dutch firm West 8 opens to the public. The park is part of the New World Symphony Campus of Pritzker prize-winning Architect Frank Gehry.
In 2009 West 8’s winning design for Lincoln Park was unanimously chosen by the Miami Beach Commission. The park is part of the New World Symphony Campus, which includes a concert hall and a conservatory where young talent coming to study and perform.
Lincoln Park is a new meeting place in town. Centrally located in the Art District at the monumental terminus of lively Lincoln Road, the park has multiple functions. During the day the park is shaded by pergolas and palm trees. In the evening it is a cultural hotspot, one of the special attractions of... Altro
Progetto • By Mass Studies • Padiglioni
Air Forest
Site
Located in east-central Denver, City Park is the largest and most notable park in Denver. This historic 1.3 km2 park has large open grass fields with Ferril Lake in its center, with a ring of trees all around the lake and the park’s perimeter. There is a main east-west axis that crosses the lake, starting from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science on the lake’s eastern edge (at the park’s highest elevation) to the landmark boat pavilion to the west on the other side of the lake, past which one can see the Denver skyline and the mountains beyond. The ring of trees becomes disconnected at this axis on both sides of the lake, to provide a vantage point.
Program
Denver Office of Cultural Affairs had hosted an event called Dialog:Cit... Altro
Prodotto • By Interface • Entropy II
Entropy II
Entropy is a tufted patterned structured tip-sheared pile carpet tile with Graphlex® backing and pile material made from 100% solution-dyed nylon with pre-consumer recycled content. The design concept for Entropy is based on biomimicry - simulating the random patterns, shades and colours found in nature, and since every Entropy tile is uniquely different, the style can be laid non directional. This makes for faster installation, easy replacement and, most importantly, reduced wastage.
Installation is possible with TacTiles. Innovative and sustainable, TacTiles represent a whole new way to install commercial flooring, without the need for glue. So choosing, fitting, and even removing your flooring is easy! Altro