Biomimetic Architectural and Urban Design
A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 23488
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Interests: regenerative urban design; biomimicry; climate change adaptation; nature-based solutions and ecosystem services
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Humanity faces an unprecedented convergence of ecological and climatic changes that are and will profoundly affect civilization. At the same time, the growing human population is now mostly urbanized, and urbanization rates are increasing, particularly in developing nations. It is clear that the way we conceive of, construct, and live in buildings, and indeed whole urban environments must change rapidly.
How can we create and remediate buildings and cities so they become complex self-regulating systems that produce and regenerate ecological and societal health? How can our cities and buildings be designed to evolve and become more, rather than less fit for place and purpose over time? How can buildings and/or whole cities become responsive ‘living’ entities that can become resilient even as context changes? This Special Issue investigates the potential of biomimicry, of emulating the processes and functions of the living world, from individual organisms through to whole living biomes, as a way to consider some of these questions.
This Special Issue will investigate how biomimicry can be applied at architectural and urban scales in the design of sustainable, resilient buildings, and cities through the translation and practical application of biological and ecological knowledge. We invite urban designers, planners, landscape architects, architects, and scientists to reimagine buildings and cities by submitting stimulating, speculative, and forward-thinking original research, case studies, and articles that begin to forge a new way to understand, construct, and live in urban contexts.
Dr. Maibritt Pedersen ZariGuest Editor
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