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RESEARCH FIELD BIOMIMICRY
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Biominmcry in architecture, to put it simply, is the looking to nature to find inspirations for new innovations. Architects have frequently drawn inspiration from nature particularly in regard to form and structure. However, biomimetic architecture is much more complex than just copying the shape of natural forms. The innovation within the architectural realm and becoming viable with the aid of computation and parametric modelling, is the ability to imitate the inner logic of nature’s morphological processes. It is the understanding of structural processes and the rethinking of our traditions in these fields of design that could potentially lead to more efficient, sustainable and profitable building practices and innovations. By looking closely at natural systems we can determine the underlying principles nature uses and possibly use this to imply form, or a way to inform structural logic. Additionally with the use of computation and specific parametric logic we can imitate and create a multitude of complex design solutions in a similar approach to nature. CONCEPTUALISATION 5
B2. CASE STUDY 1.0 The Morning line , Istanbul -Aranda/Lasch
The morning line is a dramatically sprawling metal frame structure that functions as an interactive, engaging public art display. It is an experimental project that has innate features of simultaneously generating itself, falling apart and creating a sense of enclosure through its interactive structure. The architect employs fractal principles in order to truncate a regular tetrahedron, breaking down the larger formal components into progressively smaller ones. Its rigid, small components have allowed it to be deconstructed and resurrected numerous times in different locations. To add to complexity of multi-scalar repetition, varying curves were pulled across the hexagonal surfaces, connecting them at the mid points of their edges, the base geometry was then removed resulting in an ‘unexpected’ visual and experiential effect. Architects tend to pursue complexity through new geometric relationships, however the morning line illustrates that generating this coveted quality is possible from a single processed form. It also illustrates how these ends may be reached through playful computation.
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The definition begins creating the polygons and specifying the size of the geometries by varying the radius, and the number of sides. By adding sliders for polygon component we are able to vary the options and bake them for different results as seen in this visual graph The Segment input of the polygon component can only take minimum of 3 and maximum of 5. If the number input exceed maximum, the algorithm will not show any resulting outcome.
To create the fractals on each of the polygons vertices a scalar slider is applied and from the graph above, it can be seen that as the scalar factor is increased, the complexity is as well. The scaling works by creating polygons at the vertices and then truncating the initial polygon in iterations.
All explorations involved a test of how the geometry could be joined to others like it; a technique that Aranda/Lasch in their essay on the theme of biomimicry, ‘tooling’ refer to as tiling and packing. On this basis, the truncated tetrahedrons were most appropriate. Beigh symmetrical they could have the same tectonic relationship with other tetrahedrons in four, equally dispersed directions. This possibility suggested a system of extension, through related geometry, rather than the division a subtraction techniques often employed by Aranda/ Lasch.
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The main criterion for selecting the geometry was the balance between complexity and simplicity. Also, concerned with how easily the geometry could be stacked or attached to create a collective from.
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