biomimicry KTH

By Sareh

The Minister of Municipal Affairs & Agriculture (MMAA) in Qatar is getting a brand new office building that takes the form of a toweri...

Inspired by pitcher plant, a group of applied scientists at Harvard University managed to create a material that repels just about any typ...

The Mimosa is among the plant varieties that exhibit specialized “nastic motions” – movements noticeable in real time with the naked eye...

The sea shells are strong and resistant to fracturing, because the calcium carbonate is combined with proteins which bind the crystals tog...

The lateral line is a hydrodynamic imaging system found in fish and aquatic amphibians which enables them to accomplish a variety of underwa...

Spiders use these hairs to stay dry or avoid drowning. By mimicking spiders, engineering researchers from the University of Florida (UF) h...

Solar panels that track the sun currently involve the use of motors and electronic control systems to move them and convert the power to...

Brian Kerkvliet from Inspiration Farm talks about his little compost pile that provided 500 hot showers. Compost heat can, indeed, be ...

SAVE WATER BRICK made from leaves and discarded plastic absorbs water   Providing a sensible solution to the green waste and the plastic tr...

In our next system mapping, we could think about connecting program to re-use energy, heat or water product by one program for an other one...

Many lichens show varying degrees of sensitivity to man-made pollutants. Lichen are very sensitive to pollution such as the presence of sulf...

Bamboo scaffolding green wall It’s amazing what a little ingenuity and tenacity to do something good for the community and the environme...

Banded Snail   lookout The lookout provides views over the reserve and the adjoining Dyfi estuary and serves as an ...

Design team Chimera has conceived of an incredible series of spiraling skyscrapers for New York’s Hudson Yards that are modeled after the ...

Vegetal City Like an illustration from a child’s storybook, the Vegetal City concept by Luc Schuiten merges architecture with natu...

Some aspects of biomimicry have been played around with for a long time for example mimicking the structure of termite mounds. There have ...

Lemon leaf with interconnected loops. Photo: RU A team of biophysicists at Rockefeller University recently published a paper in Physical...

(image via:  andres harris ) “Skulls in general are extraordinary impact-resistant structures and extremely light at the same time as...