•Architecture Inspired by Nature.

•Bioinspiration
•Biology architecture.

•Prawn
•bizarre giant bug or sea bug

Daniel Libeskind creates sharp, inspiring buildings

•Biomimicry does not just look at the shape and form of nature, but asks a much bigger
question: what function does that form provide?

Related forms:

bi·o·mor·phic, adjective
bi·o·mor·phism, noun

Metamorphism:
Change of the form or transformation of anyform.
Eden project..2001 (England)
Norman foster
•Tapers outward from the base and then narrows
•Smaller footprint allows for a public plaza
•Aerodynamic shape (plan nd skeleton )creates less downdraft
Sea-sponge
•floor plan resembled a sliced pickle .
•Radial floor design with each floor is rotated 5°.
 LYON AIRPORT STATION
The Structure itself is kept pure, demonstrating the skeleton without added ornament. The black
exposed ribs act as a striking feature that sets the main concourse apart from the rest of the
station, and reemphasizes the repeating shape of elements within the whole.
However, this is the inspiration for Calatrava. This sketch of his human eye sculpture illustrates
the profile that he wanted to achieve with the rail station.
The station is widely thought of as a symbol of a bird, fitting to the theme of flight at the airport.
• It appears to be expressive of a bird, symbolizing flight with the two main “wing” arches
coming together at the bird's “beak”.
• However, Calatrava insists that it is actually inspired more by the shape of the human eye.
• Before the station’s construction, he designed a sculpture representing an eye, which later
served as inspiration for the station’s design.

•The smooth and sweeping flight of an elegant bird comes to mind, an appropriate motif to the
program of flight at the Satolas airport. Interestingly enough, however, the original sculpture
from which Calatrava based the Lyon Station (Figure 1) was previously constructed not as a bird,
but inspired by the shape of the human eye (Rattenbury, 2006). Diagram 1 demonstrates other
potential iterations that could have come from the original sculpture. Either way, all of these
forms evoke a certain energy in rigidity or what Ruskin describes as “an active rigidity; the
peculiar energy which gives tension to movement, and stiffness to resistance” (173).

•Movement, though not literal in the case of this structure, is paired with the idea of dynamic
growth processes and adaptation found in natural processes, such as the flapping of a bird’s
wings; the Maternatura, is an “organic syntaxis in which steel cables, like ligaments, are
anchored to an articulation joining bone-like elements.”
 Behavior Level 

On the behavior level, the building mimics how the organism interacts with its environment to
build a structure that can also fit in without resistance in its surrounding environment.
 QATAR’S GIANT CACTUS:
•The design, by Bangkok-based firm Aesthetics Architects GO Group,
•cactus plant with it’s ability to thrive in harsh desert climates, very apt for Qatar, a hot country
covered in sand which has an average rainfall of only 3.2 inches.
•energy efficiency in mind; sun shades on the windows can be opened or closed to suit the
prevailing temperature (thus mimicking the activity of the cactus which performs transpiration at
night rather than during the day in order to retain water).
•The dome at the base of the tower will house a botanical garden which for extra green points
could include an edible garden and use plants to clean up waste water.
Sun shad
The Qatar Cacti Building designed by Bangkok-based Aesthetics Architects for the Minister of
Municipal Affairs and Agriculture is a projected building that uses the cactus’s relationship to its
environment as a model for building in the desert. The functional processes silently at work are
inspired by the way cacti sustain themselves in a dry, scorching climate. Sun shades on the
windows open and close in response to heat, just as the cactus undergoes transpiration at night
rather than during the day to retain water.[16] The project reaches out to the ecosystem level in
its adjoining botanical dome whose wastewater management system follows processes that
conserve water and has minimum waste outputs. Incorporating living organisms into the
breakdown stage of the wastewater minimizes the amount of external energy resources needed
to fulfill this task.[16] The dome would create a climate and air controlled space that can be used
for the cultivation of a food source for employees.
The Eastgate Centre 
Mick Pearce & Associates
office and shopping complex in Harare, Zimbabwe.
•To minimize potential costs of regulating the building’s inner temperature Pearce looked to the
self-cooling mounds of African termites.
•The building has no air-conditioning or heating but regulates its temperature with a passive
cooling system inspired by the self-cooling mounds of African termites. \
•The structure, however, does not have to look like a termite mound to function like one and
instead aesthetically draws from indigenous Zimbabwean masonry
ZAHA HADID: PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, ABU DHABI
•"As it winds through the site, the architecture increases in complexity, building up height and
depth and achieving multiple summits in the bodies housing the performance spaces, which
spring from the structure like fruits on a vine and face westward, toward the water" 
•In the island of Saadiyat, Zaha Hadid's proposal audaciously craves to join this select "club of
waterfront venues" and does so with a building that looks ready to dive into the water. 

http://architecturalmoleskine.blogspot.com/2012/09/zaha-hadid-performing-arts-center-abu.ht
•The architect has been inspired by organic themes or nature for the conception of her work, and
in fact this building might resemble a group of cosmic eels in frantic race, or a branch extending
in several buds. Looking at it in more detail, it is clearly the intention of making
a volumetric  transition from the cultural district to the waterfront. The building thus establishes a
gradual differentiation of domains.
•The facade of the building expresses this allegory with the natural world, where both the
structure and the openings resemble plant elements, such as leaves and branches.
STUNNING LEAF HOUSE IN BRAZIL (Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura)
•The roof acts as a big leaf that protects from the hot sun all the enclosed spaces of the house,
•Roof looks like banana giant leaf-shaped.
•There are no corridors and inside and outside are almost fused. Rain water is harvested from the
roof for re-use.
 LEAF HOUSE IN AUSTRALIA BY London-based architects UNDERCURRENT ( Sydney)

•Leaf house, a garden within the home(Leaf House is building that allows users to be inside and
•in-the-garden at the same time)
•The roof looks like fallen leaves, thus it has been dubbed the “Leaf House”. The roof is
supported by winding branch-like steel tubes and the interior is enclosed in glass panels. For
more privacy, some rooms are tucked below a sandstone surround.

•There are those who want a house with a garden to reconnect with nature. Then, there are
those who want an even closer connection and go that bit further by bringing the garden into
their home.

•They haven’t only brought the garden into the house but they have breathed life into a living
structure that is so organic looking, old Mother Nature herself couldn't have done better.

•Overlapping ‘leaves’, made from corrugated iron, provide a canopy over the structure whilst
allowing light to seep in through the gaps.
Santiago Calatrava
L’Hemisfèric (Planetarium)
Valencia, Spain
 BURJ DUBAI

•Burj Khalifa was performed by ADRIAN SMITH and team of 90 designers at Chicago office
•The design of burj dubai is derived from the patterning systems embodied in Islamic architecture and the
desert flower hymenocallis native to the region.
•The tower is composed of three elements arranged around a central core. As the tower rises from the flat
desert base, decreasing the cross section of the tower as it reaches toward the sky.
•At the top, the central core emerges and is sculpted to form a finishing spire.
•A y-shaped floor plan maximizes views of the Persian gulf. Viewed from above or from the base, the form
also evokes the onion domes of Islamic architecture.
1..Project and site 1..take inspiration
2..take inspiration on the basis of above or requirmnt (problems) 2...Project and site
3..sketches 2D
4..model / sketches scale
 Aims:

     inspired from kangro form nd also from its characteristics…

Process Followed :

                                Inspiration from nature

                                Ideation
                                Form development
                                Concept development > Product
                                Product material
                                Product styling
                                Working prototype
3 phase ….1 read sharp shapes …2..explore forms or modify ..3..make modles to have proper
view of final forms 
 Steps:
•Choose your inspiration from a mammal, bird, or insect, thinking about what the outcome will
be.
• Look at how your inspiration is constructed, analyzing the shapes and forms and how they
function.
•Study the elements and patterns that make up the inspired form and apply those ideas to the
sketches
•Develop a series of ten thumbnail sketches to visualize the shapes that will make up your final
design. This is not the final building. Think about the pieces that make up your creature and
sketch them individually.
• Look at those shapes, do five thumbnail sketches of what your structure (building ) might look
like.
•Choose the best sketch, and Break down your forms into the basic shapes required to build it,
and develop your floor plans and elevation.
•Now add secondary elements like surrounding detail, a pavement, perhaps a few trees.