From Bioinspiration to Biomimicry in Architecture: Opportunities and Challenges

The term “bioinspiration” defines a creative approach based on the observation of biological principles and transfer to design. Biomimicry is recent approach, which describes large field scientific technical activities dealing with an interdisciplinary cooperation between biology other fields goal solving practical problems addressing innovation or sustainable development. Architecture has been influenced by many aspects natural social sciences, among these, currently blending into design activities. Bioinspiration evolved shifted architectural practices towards numerous innovative approaches through different bioarchitectural movements from past until present. However, there blur biomimicry within bioinspiration in architecture direct copy mere forms true understanding principles, pivot main challenge remains gap profound knowledge biology, its related process design, including cross-disciplinary collaboration architects biologists. This entry presents how it leads today’s biomimicry. It proposes define methodologies this applies contexts study existing case studies. opportunities, challenges future outlook will also be discussed.