Hypernatural
Subtitle: architecture's new relationship with nature
By: Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer ; drawing by Blair Satterfield ; foreword by Michael Weinstock
Contributors: Swackhamer, Marc, 1970- author
Edition: First edition.
Series: Architecture briefs; Architecture briefs
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781616892722
Subjects: Environmental aspects; Architecture; Nature (Aesthetics); Architecture and technology
Other titles: Hyper-natural
Description: "Despite the ever-growing sophistication of synthetic and digital tools, it's the natural world that captures the imaginations of today's vanguard designers. By looking to nature as a teacher rather than simply as a source for raw materials, pioneers in the emerging biomimicry movement are developing design methods and materials to create intelligent buildings that emulate life itself. In Hypernatural architecture and material experts Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer present an international collection of forty-two case studies that illustrate astonishing new applications possible in this rapidly growing field, from Echoviren, a botanical pavilion that was designed to wilt into its surrounding redwood forest in Northern California, to the MIT Media Lab's Silk Pavilion, constructed by the threads of silkworms as they passed over scaffolding. Together, these projects show that by looking to nature, design can be a tool that makes our built environment more efficient, sustainable, and, most of all, livable." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geosphere; title: Atmosphere; title: Hydrosphere; title: Microbial Biosphere; title: Botanical Biosphere; title: Zoological Biosphere; title: Noosphere.