For sustainable Biomimicry Design

"There's so many smart designs when you look at the natural world,"

106115 Sungtae cho

What is Biomimicry ?
Bio means to life and mimesis means to Mimic or imitate, This is a term derived from two Greek word. Biomimicry Means that the characteristics of an organism, mechanism, The basic structure and principles of biological and such that apply across the industry.

A case of application of Biomimicry design

A case of application of Biomimicry design can be subdivided into three major sections-form, function, system. The most section is an imitation of form or function. In recent, sustainability and systems mimic there are becoming. The sustainability and systems mimic means a case natural ecology in industry. For example, Nature of the production and disposal or Natural circulation.

Relationship of form

Yellow turtle(Ostracion cubicus)

Car(Concept car,Benz,2005)

The Yellow boxfish (Ostracion cubicus) is a boxfish of the genus Ostracion, and can be found in reefs throughout the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean as well as the south eastern Atlantic Ocean. When Benz began to contemplate its next generation of high-efficiency small cars, it sought aquatic inspiration. But instead of considering obvious undersea hot rods like

sharks, the Mercedes team turned to a fish that resembled a car.

Wind-tunnel testing of a clay model revealed a drag coefficient (Cd) of just 0.06, startlingly close to the ideal 0.04 of a water droplet. Like the droplet, the boxfish's face is small in proportion to its overall length, and its streamlined surfaces encourage air to move over it without creating the turbulence that robs aerodynamic efficiency. Mercedes' Bionic concept vehicle mimics this functional form.

Relationship of function

Lotus

Paint(nano coating)

In 1982, They discovered in the lotus leaf a naturally self cleaning, water repellent surface. The secret lies in waxy microstructures and nano structures that, by their contact angle with water, cause it to bead and roll away like mercury, gathering dirt as it goes. Its calling Lotus effect The complex surface of large-winged insects such as butterflies and scared lotus

remain dirt-free thanks to their complex surface topography and the way it interacts
with the physics of water molecules, Hydrophobic surface allows self-cleaning. This is the premise of the lotusan exterior coating. This coating uses the principles of micro structure to automatically become clean after a rain shower.

Relationship of system

The body's blood circulation system

Piezo shower

A shower that can heat itself independently of an external energy source. The self heating Piezo shower uses piezoelectricity, fibers that generate electricity through movement and friction, to heat water that flow through its many pipes. The Piezo fibers are inserted into pipes which compose the shower, giving it an apppealling sculptural shape.

The value of Biomimicry Design

Sustainable design is becoming an epidemic in Integrating the environmental, social

and economic value to the corporate management strategy.

Multinational companies(Boeing, GE, P&G) already invested in take advance of Biomimicry design product innovation, and they are looking for the future design direction. Proponents of biomimicry contend that many of the solutions that we will need during the sustainability revolution are to be found in nature: super-efficient structures, high strength bio-degradable composites, self-cleaning surfaces, zero waste systems, low

energy ways of creating fresh water and many others.

Now days typically man-made systems and products involve using resources in linear ways. Often the resources are derived in highly energy intensive ways, then used inefficiently and ultimately end up as waste. While some benefits can be derived by looking at each of these stages separately it is worth remembering Einsteins maxim that problems are not solved by thinking within the same level of consciousness that created them.

Biomimicry offers completely new ways of approaching design such that radical
increases in resource-efficiency can be achieved. If future generations are to enjoy a reasonable quality of life then we urgently need to redesign our buildings, our products and our systems to be completely closed loop and running off current solar income. While no-one would suggest that this transformation is going to be easy, biomimicry offers a best and largely untapped resource of solutions to such problems. Nature generally makes materials with a minimum of resource input, at ambient temperature and pressure and does so in a way that enhances the environment rather than polluting it. Biomimicry offers enormous potential to transform our buildings, products and

systems. For every problem that we currently face whether it is generating energy,
finding clean water, designing out waste or manufacturing benign materials, they will be closed loop in all their use of resources.

My opinion about Biomimicry Design

The idea conception is the most basic and essential phase for the expression of visual
art. Since the 1980, the ecological factors were generally highlighted, based on the organic relationship with nature in the form of the design are, research on the idea going on actively. The Nature ``do not fall behind the trend as a single source design``, Victor Papanek mentioned, it is most fundamental ideas in visual arts for human aesthetic expression. We need to apply positively the design principles that are found in the structure and behavior of nature, as Rudolf Finsterwalder mentioned ``form follows nature, culture cradles form`` from his book Form Follows Nature. And also, we expect, there is a need for interdisciplinary research to be actively proceed: mimic the natural form or function

of ``biomimicry`` in natural science and design.

The idea conception of natural form, as a phrase form follows nature, based on biomimetic that play an important role in modern design as an idea of the basic structure, the principles of plastic elements, the universal standards of beauty. The proportion, color, harmony, structure, materials found in the natural form which go beyond the era and culture, personal taste of the past and present as an universal principles of formative arts and universal beauty. The shape of the modern architecture

of the natural product and visual design area in the form of ideas, while the most basic
role in the 21st century, the town council of the new technology is anticipated to play an important role.

To be short, I want to call it VIP Very Important Perspective of design

Those who inspired by a model other than Nature, a mistress above all masters, are laboring in vain. Leonardo Da Vinci