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Biomimicry: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Biomimicry applies strategies from nature to solve design challenges. By studying how organisms and ecosystems function, designers create systems that are more efficient, sustainable, and integrated with their environments.

The community explores biomimetic approaches across scales: passive cooling systems inspired by desert flowers, structural solutions derived from animal morphology, water management strategies based on natural hydrological systems, and architectural interventions that work symbiotically with existing ecosystems.

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UNI29 works

UNI Editorial13 works

Misak Terzibasiyan2 works

Nicholas Miller2 works

Gaurav Lunawat2 works

parisa kaviani2 works

Isha Keni2 works

Sandesh1 work

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Vedashri

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EMBRACING THE TEMPORAL SCAR: “REVITALIZING POST-INDUSTRIAL LANDFORMS THROUGH ECOPOIETIC DESIGN”

This thesis reimagines an abandoned Navi Mumbai quarry as a healing ecosystem. Balancing urban growth and biodiversity, the project uses Rhino and Voronoi systems to integrate Miyawaki forests and wetlands into the terrain. The result is an evolving civic landscape where architecture is secondary, prioritizing natural ecological succession and resilience.

HsiaoChiao

110

Trinity

The TRINITY utilizes hydro-bionic and magnetic power, self-generating a free-form G.E.N. (Global Entertainment Nucleus) in the ocean. With this future stadium, we focus on how to use architecture to fuse the worlds and experiences of both the physical and the virtual.

haqi and farah

105

Armadicar

To overcome the unpredictable disasters occurring on this planet, Armadicar – a mobile habitat inspired by Armadillo – provides an adaptive dwelling in a minimum space. With costumizable interior elements, openings and boundaries, Armadicar accommodates four-member family activities during days and nights, on land and water surface in sustainable way.

Reza and 2 others

Flower of the Desert

Choosing arid climate and Following Biomimetic design, we came to across a plant that lives in the Namibia desert, Welwitschia which is extremely sustainable in Arid areas and lives about 1000 to 1500 years. The unusual form of this plant keeps the soil under the plant cool and moist. The thick leaves lay on the sand surface and prevent wind erosion aswell.

Misak and AMIR

Pangolin can help mining (Leap)

The aim of the project is to design a space habitat for asteroid mining, while we need also a spacecraft as well. This brings us an idea of pulling and extracting mineral materials

Silva,

Abode

The Abode Tower focuses on providing a place where families can raise their children in a nature-enriched environment. The project encourages the residents to utilize community spaces to engage more with the natural landscapes that both the building and Hong Kong provide.

Solange

EMERGE

In modern cities there is a lack of importance towards the individuals, their mental health, and their well-beings. EMERGE aims to reverse this reality. The project intends to make nature emerge from the concrete. It proposes an architecture that houses chaos, nature and life.

Kaan and 3 others

Plug'n Play

This project is driven by the main purpouse of creating a free/creative/unique playground experience to the children from all ages.

Juan Ramon

Bi-Intelligence

This living building defined by the systems at work inside, as well as the function of the forms, and the occupants of the environment created.

Joseph

ABODE

This biophilic project seeks the balance between nature and the infrastructure in order to promote in the well-being and mental health of the occupants and make a positive impact in the environment.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

Tidal Survival: A Biomimetic Habitat That Glows, Moves, and Breathes Beneath the Ocean

Nicholas Miller's shortlisted EHC Pacific entry reimagines underwater habitation as a mobile, bioluminescent organism rather than a rigid capsule.

Ocean Architecture

Waterscape

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

Make an Elsewhere: A Noah's Ark of Plants, Animals and Children Docked in the Dense City

Khanh Anh's shortlisted Education '20 entry wraps a school in planted shelves, sheltering plants, animals and children in one portable ecosystem.

Urban Design

Sustainable Design

UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 week ago

MORPHLUID: A Solar-Responsive Envelope That Shades and Breathes Through Liquid-Filled Panels

Sandesh's MORPHLUID uses sun-heated liquid chambers to morph panels, turning an envelope module into both a shading device and a ventilation system.

Passive Architecture

Climate Responsive

UNI

publishedResults5 months ago

Flower of the Desert: Biomimetic Architecture That Breathes in Arid Heat

A petal-shaped public institution translates the survival strategies of a 1,500-year-old desert plant into climate-responsive courtyards and passive coolin

Desert Architecture

Climate Responsive