INNOVATION BY IMITATION IN DESIGN EDUCATION
Year: 2018
Editor: Elies Dekoninck, Andrew Wodehouse, Chris Snider, Georgi Georgiev, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Buthayna Hasan Eilouti
Series: ICDC
Section: POSTER 2: SHORT PRESENTATIONS
Page(s): 248-255
ISBN: 9781912254071
Abstract
Within a cross-disciplinary framework of design knowledge management, an exploratory approach to architectural designing is proposed. In this approach, Biomimetics is explored for its potentials as a generative tool that uses organisms from an environment to inspire designs of buildings that emerge from, and function in harmony with, that environment. The approach is designed to encourage designers to derive innovative products by imitating solutions from nature and biology. Its applicability is tested in digital design studio settings where visualization and communication are augmented by multi-media configurations of kinetics, ergonomics and responsive models. Reflections about the approach seem to encourage its addition to architects’ toolkit as a template of innovative solutions, and guidance for sustainable contextual customization of designs.
Keywords: design methods, Biomimetics, digital studio, BioTecture, design education, interdisciplinary design.