Overview
- Investigates the possibilities of natural structures and forms in in architecture at a variety of scales
- Discusses the incorporation of living organisms such as plants and algae in sustainable architecture
- Offers full-color examples of experimental projects created in bionic design workshops
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
Keywords
Table of contents (22 chapters)
-
Learning from Natural Structures: The Basis for a Bionic Approach
-
Establishing the Tools: Parametric and Biodigital Architectural Design
-
Studying Scales in Territory: Bionics and Landscape
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elena-Codina Duşoiu is a Ph.D. architect and professor within the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism from Bucharest, Romania. Her main fields of research are: rehabilitation and conversion of buildings (published books: The Dynamics of the Sacred Space. The Influence of Function, 3 Breweries and their Destiny, Ion Mincu Publishing House, 2009), vernacular architecture and ecology (organizer of 12 editions of Spanish-Romanian workshops on vernacular architecture 2006-2018), design and bionics (research studies realized within the IMUAU and the Alcalá University, 2021-22). She received various research grants and published about 100 scientific articles and 8 authored and co-authored books in the mentioned research fields. Outstanding activity as Visiting Professor in Spain, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic, Liechtenstein, Argentina etc. Several national and international prizes and nominations in architectural research and architectural design, owner of a personal architecture studio since 2003.
Tana-Nicoleta Lascu is a Lecturer Ph.D. architect at the Faculty of Architecture,Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania. She has been involved in several restoration projects in Romania, France, and Italy, thereafter developping more than 100 projects during seven years activity at Cornelis de Jong Architektenburo bna, Middenbeemster, Noord-Holland, most significant in Urk, De Rijp, Marken and Beemster, polder inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage List, at the initiative of architect Cornelis de Jong. She was visiting professor at University of Liège (2014), University of Architecture in Venice – IUAV, and University of Alcalá, within Giner de los Rios program (2021). Since 2012, she representsIMUAU within The Network of Universities for Studies and Education according the European Landscape Convention – UNISCAPE. Her doctoral thesis „Landscape as an Integrated Concept in the Sustainable Development”, concluded in 2011, as well as the studies and research projects came as result of her constant interest for a transdisciplinary-integrated approach.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Architecture Inspired by Nature
Book Subtitle: Experimenting Bionics
Editors: María Rosa Cervera Sardá, Elena-Codina Dușoiu, Tana Nicoleta Lascu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33144-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33143-5Published: 26 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33146-6Published: 27 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33144-2Published: 25 August 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 276
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 243 illustrations in colour
Topics: Arts, Sustainable Development, Nanotechnology