BIOINSPIRATION FOR ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

Biological evolutions have been taking place for millions of years and the species have made refinements to evolve survival strategies suitable to different climatic and environmental conditions. These evolutions have been inspiring the generations of scientist in areas of their research interest. The good aspect of biological species is that they live in harmony of other species and instead of harming the other they support the species nearby. The species in nature have a very neat and clean system of mutual co-existence. This is in total contravention of the developments done by the human being. The present paper tries to explore the biological species to get inspirations for the design of buildings in a way that the buildings start functioning as the bio-species do. It is said that everyone has something inspiring from biological species. As an architect planner the authors have tried to collect inspirations from biological species with an idea of making buildings that are less polluting, less energy consuming and are comfortable to live-in even in the changing climatic conditions. The authors are of firm belief that the valuable lessons derived from nature shall certainly help architects in producing better and sustainable architecture