Biomimicry an Approach toward Sustainability of High-Rise Buildings
Received Date: May 27, 2017 / Accepted Date: Jun 23, 2017 / Published Date: Jun 28, 2017
Abstract
Buildings are the main destination for the nation's power supplies. High-rise buildings due to their large scale require much more materials for their construction compared to low-rises. In addition, they use more energy and emit greenhouse gasses, as a result, they have major environmental impacts. Therefore, high rises seem to be nonsustainable. With increasing popularity of high rises, achieving a high level of sustainability has become the leading subject of the architectural designs. Hence, the efforts for combining technology and biology are largely these days. Biomimicry is a concept that talks about the ideas inspired by nature and it has been offered as an optimal solution for the conflicts between nature and human activities. As it said, nature is an excellent and the final response to the problem of sustainability. Therefore, architects have employed biomimicry approach in their designs to minimize buildings negative impacts on the environment and reach overall architectural sustainability. This paper studies different approaches and levels of biomimicry and discusses their application in high-rise buildings. It is shown that employing different principles of biomimicry may result in diverse outcomes in terms of tall buildings sustainability
Keywords: Biomimicry; High-rise building; Nature; Sustainability; Tall building
Citation: Mirniazmandan S, Rahimianzarif E (2017) Biomimicry an Approach toward Sustainability of High-Rise Buildings. J Archit Eng Tech 6: 203. Doi: 10.4172/2168-9717.1000203
Copyright: © 2017 Mirniazmandan S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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