Inspired by nature : animals : the building/biology connection
著者
書誌事項
Inspired by nature : animals : the building/biology connection
W.W. Norton, 2009
- pbk.
- タイトル別名
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Arquitectura animal
- 統一タイトル
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Arquitectura animal
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注記
Originally published in Spanish: Barcelona : Parramon Ediciones, c2007
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture-whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons-has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by Nature: Animals focuses on specific analogies, comparing and contrasting techniques and materials used in animal constructions with examples of human architecture. It gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have drawn on such structures as tortoise and snail shells, spiders' webs and birds' nests, beehives and beaver lodges.
Among the built examples from around the world are inventive projects such as Elephant Skin House (PPAG Architects, Austria), Kiss the Frog! (mmw architects, Norway), Moore Apiary (Marlon Blackwell, Cashiers, North Carolina), Concrete Pod (Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio, Nagoya, Japan), and more, beautifully illustrated in colorful photographs supplemented by plans. The visual analogies underline how architects can find elegant solutions and create new, sustainable, and efficient architectonic forms by the close and understanding observation of nature.
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