Biomimetics for Architecture & Design Nature - Analogies - Technology /

• Main Authors: Pohl, Göran (Author), Nachtigall, Werner (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Industrial design.; Complexity, Computational.; Engineering design.; Buildings > Design and construction.; Building.; Construction.; Engineering, Architectural.; Biomedical engineering.; Building Construction.; Biomedical Engineering.; Industrial Design.; Complexity.; Engineering Design.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application of biomimetic principles in architecture and engineering design. As a result of a combined effort by two internationally recognized authorities, the biologist Werner Nachtigall and the architect Göran Pohl, the book describes the...

Table of Contents:

• Technical Biology and Biomimetics
• Buildings, Architecture and Biomimetics
• Biomimetics for Buildings
• Natural Functions and Processes as Prototypes for Buildings
• Biological Support and Envelope Structures and their Counterparts in Buildings
• Products and Architecture - Examples of Biomimetics for Buildings
• Brief Information to Biological Structures
• Appendix.