Innovative Applications for Net-zero Buildings in Architecture, Based on the Principles of Bioinspiration

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to create a knowledge transfer between biology and technology and to integrate this knowledge into the development of bio-inspired structures in order to understand the importance and impact that the application of bio -inspiration in Architecture can have, on the energy debate.

To answer the question of how a rchitecture can respond to sustainability issues where buildings will behave in built environments like living organisms in the natural environment, scientists have turned to the investigation of living beings to design models that create new ways to think a bout a daptation, change, and performance in a rchitecture. At the same time, the development of technologies helps engineers, a rchitects, and designers inspired by bio-mimetics to recreate complex structures that exist in na ture, using innova tive construction methods and materials, with the aim of energy saving. The building shell is now constructed, not with tra ditional inert surfaces but with a living cladding, which in many cases includes a wide range of technologies based on the behavior of organisms found in nature. The strength of this approach is the identification and evaluation of multiple benefits rela ted to the energy efficiency of biomim etic solutions.