Manifestations of Growing in Contemporary Architecture

Abstract

The concept of employing bioinspired, eco-friendly architecture has attracted the interest of architects, material scientists, as well as researchers in the field of Biomimetics. Inspiration of nature is carried out as a guiding spirit and it creates an advanced field by (direct and indirect) mimicking and observing or Biomimicry, as a tradition of lifestyle. In the field of architecture, looking at nature and living beings and seeking solutions in them is of great value, which is useful in reducing design problems to a minimum, and choosing the most appropriate materials for it. Nature is a great permanent factory with aesthetic aspects. For all of that, it was possible to find solutions for the design by mimicking the growth characteristics of living beings, as one of the solutions that can be adopted to maintain context and access to the community, thus achieving sustainability. Moreover, architecture inspired by living beings has the characteristic of livelihood (bio-architecture) and has the ability to provide good job spaces at a reasonable cost in an ecofriendly way. However, the methods of transportation from the organism as (growth) to architecture are still less reliable since the architects do not realize the real possibilities of these methods. Still, the problem of the current research from that emerged represented by "the unclear of the role of growth characteristics in achieving functional and environmental sustainability in contemporary architecture". The aim of the research is to "reveal the role of these characteristics in achieving functional development and environmental sustainability of contemporary architecture" depending on what the technician provided of digital for transferring these properties to architecture and finding different solutions according to changing needs over time and to produce sustainable (bio)architecture. The first step to answer this problem was building a theoretical framework for the aspects of growth and the methods for transferring it to architecture. Then the applying it to two selected projects to touch on the results and conclusions of the study.