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Biomimicry in Architecture!

Image KeresH wikimedia commons!

Image bernard bradley creative commons!

Image Dr Mark Fricker!

The Biomimetic Office!

Image Anterovium - Fotolia

Areca palm!

Mother in laws tongue!

Image Lucky dragon USA - Fotolia !

Image adisa - Fotolia!

Money plant!
Image raweenuttapong - Fotolia!

Image Ecoview - Fotolia!

Image Robert Keenan - Fotolia!

Image (colour negative) Alexander Potapov - Fotolia!

Image focusphoto - fotolia!

The Biomimetic Office by Exploration Architecture!

Image Exploration Architecture!

The Biomimetic Office by Exploration Architecture!

Image Exploration Architecture!

The Sahara Forest Project!

Image courtesy of NASA!

Image Fotolia.com!

The Eden Project

The Eden Project

Human-made systems Biological systems


Simple, disconnected

Complex, interconnected

Linear / wasteful

Closed loop / zero waste

Resistant to change

Adapted to constant change

Long-term toxins

No long-term toxins

Fossil-fuel dependent

Current solar income

Maximise one goal

Optimised as whole system

Extractive

Regenerative

. . . adversity is not the end of a story


but, where there is courage and vision,
the beginning of a new one, a greater
one than before. Ben Okri

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