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NAVODAYA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ,RAICHUR

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

A Seminar on

“BIOMIMICRY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING”

Under the supervision of: Presented by:

Mr. SANTOSHKUMAR MOHAMMED KASHIF HUSSAIN
Assistant Professor 3NA17CV026
Department of Civil Engineering
NIT-Raichur.

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❑CONTENTS
▪ Introduction
▪ Aim
▪ Objective
▪ Scope
▪ Methodology
▪ Principles of Biomimicry
▪ Steps to adopt Biomimicry
▪ Levels of Biomimicry
▪ Analysis
▪ Literature study
▪ Benefits of Biomimicry
▪ Conclusion
▪ References.
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❑INTRODUCTION
▪ Bomimicry is the term used to describe the substance,
equipment's, mechanism and systems by which humans
imitate natural system and design.
▪ Biomimicry originates from two Greek words Bios & Mimesis
Bios = Life
Mimesis = Imitates
▪ Biomimicry operates on the principle that in its 3.8 billion year
history, nature has already found solutions to many problems we
are trying to solve.
▪ Biomimicry is multi-disciplinary subject involving wide
diversity of other domains like architecture, electronics,
medicines, biology, chemistry, mathematics etc.
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❑ AIM
▪ Biomimicry (literally: imitation of the living ) aims to take
inspiration from natural selection solutions adopted by nature and
translate the principles to human engineering.
▪ To understand the emerging trend of using Biomimicry and study
various works and theories under tilts evolution as a response to a
design problem applying biological solutions in an attempt to
explore the potential of both emerging sciences in developing a
more practical and regenerative architecture. And finally, relating
the applications of biomimicry to study its scope in contemporary
Indian architecture.

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❑ OBJECTIVES
• To review bio-mimicry from historical perspective to establish
the first documented bio-mimetic design.
• Explore the relevance inspired innovation of Biomimicry as
nature.
• How can terms like green, sustainable and energy
consciousness be associated with bio- mimetic design?
• Analyze and evaluate case studies representing such a
technology.
• A comparative study of the need of biomimetic design, by
establishing a theoretical and methodological framework for
case-studies
• The fundamental goal of biomimicry is to “leverage our place”
on the planet conceptually as well as tactically. Biologically
inspired design learns from natural systems and from our place
on the planet to inspire new sustainable solutions.
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❑ SCOPE:

The scope of this research is the study and analysis of Bio

mimicry as a significant test for sustainable architectural design
and construction, focusing on the possibility of applying selected
biomimetic principles for future sustainable designs of buildings
solving purposes like:
•Creating large span clear unobstructed areas.
•Proper lighting.
•Ventilation and Acoustical treatment.
•Energy efficiency.

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❑ METHODOLOGY

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❑One of the main goals of architectural education is to graduate
architects who will pay special attention to environmental and
sustainable issues. Students have to feel the architects’
responsibility in preserving the planet’s ecological health by
changing the perception of what buildings should look like, and
blend them with nature, rather than replacing nature with concrete.
Architects need to make building more green and adaptable to our
surroundings. They need to avoid the sick building syndrome and
create building that are energy efficient [20]. Utilizing the
biomimetic principles in architecture design leads to the
development of the required and attractive characteristics of the
building product such as adaptive architectural envelopes,
optimum lighting to spaces, healthy inspired environment,
beautiful, sustainable and green surroundings.

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❑ METHODOLOGY

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❑ PRINCIPLES OF BIOMIMICRY
• Biomimicry: Innovation inspired by the nature by Janine Beynus sets
out that there are nine basic laws underpinning the concept of
biomimicry. The biomimicry principles focus exclisive on nature
attributes thereby implying that humans have much to learn from the
billions of years of natural world of evolutionary experience, they are
o Nature runs on sunlight
o Nature uses only the energy it needs.
o Nature fits form to function.
o Nature recycles everything.
o Nature rewards cooperation.
o Nature banks on diversity.
o Nature demands local expertise.
o Nature curbs excesses from within.
o Nature taps the power of limits.
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❑ STEPS TO ADOPT BIOMIMICRY.

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❑ LEVELS OF BIOMIMICRY
▪ Biomimcry can work on three levels.
1. The Organism.
2. Its Behaviour.
3. The Ecosystem.

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➢ Organisn level :
▪ Species of living organisms have typically been evolving for
millions of years.
▪ On the organism level, the architecture looks to the organism
itself, applying its form and/or functions to a building.
▪ Functions and responses to a larger context have to be kept in
mind too, as organisms are a part of an ecosystem

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➢ Behaviour level :
▪ Buildings mimic how an organism behaves or relates to its
larger context.
▪ On the level of the ecosystem, a building mimics the natural
process and cycle of the greater environment.
▪ Not the organism itself that is mimicked, but its behavior.
▪ Behavior level mimicry requires ethical decisions to be made
about the suitability of what is being mimicked for the human
context.
▪ Not all organisms exhibit behaviors that are suitable for
humans to mimic
▪ The danger exists that models of consumption or exploitation
could be justified on the basis of how another species behaves.

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➢ Ecosystem level :
• Building mimics the natural process and cycle of the greater
environment.
➢ Ecosystem principles follow that ecosystems
▪ Are dependent on contemporary sunlight;
▪ Optimize the system rather than its components;
▪ Are attuned to and dependent on local conditions;
▪ Are diverse in components, relationships and information;
▪ Create conditions favorable to sustained life; and
▪ Adapt and evolve at different levels and at different rates.
Essentially, this means that a number of components and
processes make up an ecosystem and they must work with each
other rather than against in order for the ecosystem to run
smoothly.
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❑ ANALYSIS

Popularly knows as Lotus

Temple and located in New
Delhi, India, the temple is a
place of worship for BAHA’I
FAITH

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❑Analysis:

▪The Burj khalifa, known as

the Burj Dubai prior to its
inaugration in 2010, is a
skyscrapper in dubai, united
arab emirates. It is inspires
from a regional desert flower
shape (Hymenocallis).
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❑Analysis:

▪Beijing National
Stadium in Beijing,
China is inspired
by a bird’s nest.

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 ❑ Analysis:
▪The Twa Terminal Newyork, USA
designed and inspired by bird’s
wings.
Location: Newyork, USA.

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❑ Analysis:

▪The PALM JUMEIRAH Islands

are artificial islands built on a
coast os Dubai. Inspired by palm
trees, the islands are in shape of
palm trees,

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 ❑ Analysis:

▪The Beijing National

aquatic Centre in beijing,
China, also known as water
cube was built for the 2008
summer olympics, inspired
by water bubbles.

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❑ Analysis:

▪Popularly known as EIFFLE

TOWER , it is inspired by
bone structure.

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 ❑LITERATURE STUDY
EASTGATE CENTRE
▪Learning from terminates to cool and
heat naturally Harae, Zimbabwe. The
Eastgate centre and office block in
downtown harare that has been designed
to be ventilated and cooled entirely by
natural means.
▪The building stores heat in the day and
in the evening, the warm internal air is
ventilated through chimneys, assisted by
fans but also rising naturally because it is
less dense and drawing in denser cool air
at the bottom of the building. At night ,
the process continues, with cold air
flowing through cavities in the floor
through cavities in the floor slabs until
the building’s fabric has reached the
ideal temperature to start the next day.
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❑ RELATED ORGANISM: TERMITE
▪ An insect that builds mounds that not only
regulate temperature and humidity of
theinternal environment, but protect the
colony from fire.
❑ RELATED STRATEGIES:
❖ Evaporative cooling
▪ Many animals use the physical properties
of water to thermoregulate through
evaporation.
❖ Natural ventilation
▪ Natural ventilation in some animal-built
structures is achieved by design.
❖ Tracheal compression
▪ Tracheal compression is a respiratory
strategy used by beetles, crickets, and ants
analogous to the inflation and deflation of
vertebrate lungs
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❑Benefits of biomimicry
▪ Design biomimetic is a bridge that can connect architectural and
design professions on a route to linking design and
environmental issues in a sustainable solution
▪ Design biomimetic can emphasize ways of thinking and designing
that bring architecture and
▪ Industrial design into a process of environmental and biological
focus on more responsive, safer buildings.
▪ Biomimetic technology would help us also overcome
environmental issues, such as the greenhouse effect, global
warming, or even the ozone hole by reducing the vast amount
of co2
▪ Emissions from the built material and purifying the surrounding
environments one has to predict that this impressive new
technology will be necessary to use in this 21 century and we
have to understand it well in order to be used in the right
▪ Direction and contribute to the humanity development.
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❑CONCLUSION
▪ Biomimetic architecture as the new contemporary architectural
style of the 21st century that will revolutionize the architecture
world in every way either the way architects think or how they
inspire their ideas, the used materials in building, finishing
materials to the world and building users. However, architecture
has a small role to play in our daily life but it has a great influence
in the world we live in.
▪This adaptation of technology has peaked in the second half of
the 20th century with the discovery of new conventions of
different materials has led to an emerging new styles and patterns
of thinking that has revolted the traditional way of thinking in
architecture.
▪Design biomimetics is a bridge that can connect architectural and
design professions on a route to linking designed and
environmental
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▪ Design biomimetics can emphasize ways of thinking and
designing that bring architecture and industrial design into a
process of environmental and biological focus on more
responsive, safer buildings.
▪ Biomimetic technology would help us also overcome
environmental issues, such as the greenhouse effect, global
warming, or even the Ozone hole. By reducing the vast amount
of CO2 emissions from the built material, and purifying the
surrounding environments. One has to predict that this
impressive new technology will be necessary to use in this
21st century and we have to understand it well in order to be
used in the right direction and contribute to the humanity
development.

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 ❑REFERENCES
i. Yurtkuran S, Kirli G, Taneli Y. Learning from nature: biomimetic
design in architectural education. Procedia – Soc Behav Sci
2013;89:633–9.
ii. Zari M, Storey J. An ecosystem based biomimetic theory for
regenerative built environment. Proceedings of the Lisbon
Sustainable Building Conference,Lisbon, Portugal, 2007.
iii. Mansour H. Biomimicry A 21st Century Design Strategy
Integrating With Nature In A Sustainable Way. Future
Intermediate Sustainable Cities Conference, Egypt, 2010.
iv. Pohl G, Nachtigall W. Biomimetics for architecture & design:
nature– analogies – technology. New York, London, Switzerland:
Springer; 2015.

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