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Video By: Nadine Zaza

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Nature is an amazing designer. Just look around and you can see patterns and designs inspired by nature everywhere.

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Adaptive camouflage skin, inspired by octopuses

A team of scientists led by Cunjiang Yu at the University of Houston and John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign have developed a flexible pixellated sheet that can detect light falling upon it and change its pattern to match. So far, its large pixels can change from black to white and back again. It’s a far cry from an octopus’s skin, but it does share some of the same qualities. For example, it changes colour automatically and relatively quickly—not cephalopod-quick, but within a second or so. “This is by no means a deployable camouflage system but it’s a pretty good starting point,” says Rogers. Eventually, his team are working towards adaptive sheets that can wrap around solid objects and alter their appearance. These could be used to make military vehicles that automatically camouflage themselves, or clothes that change colour depending on lighting conditions.

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Biomimicry is taken into school 

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Biomimicry Curriculum

Sustainability Leaders Network

Learning from Nature: A Course in Biomimicry - a curriculum from Sustainability Leaders Network - is featured in a resource for 

K-12 educators developed and compiled by the Biomimcry Institute. The free digital flipbook, called Biomimicry in Youth Education, is filled with more than 80 nature-inspired lesson plans, activities, and videos geared to K-12 educators.

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Sea Urchin

Case Study

Taking inspiration from elements in nature, there are many ways to approach this situation.  For example, above, the sea urchin has many characteristics that can be useful to the implementation into the built environment as a solution to a technical problem.  Similar to a building a sea urchin has to adapt to the site conditions but unlike the static nature of a building structure, the sea urchin adapts continuously due to evolutionary processes.  The Skeleton has evolved to this complex arrangement of modular plates.  The sea urchin is a great study due to the discontinuous geometric shell, allowing for the shear forces to isolate in between each polygon where the connection is interlocking similar to fingers.  The geometrical arrangement allows three different panels to align up to each other allowing for a higher bearing load.   Since the edges act as hinges and allow for this species to grow and morph over time without folding in on it’s self there has to be a force that acts internally within the panels, this is where the porous structure has its function.  This inner configuration provides a lighter overall weight while being able to distribute the internal forces more even that a solid wall. 

Architectural Use: Structure, Spatial Arrangement

Image Source: probelog

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Basic principles of Biomimicry

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Making an adhesive pad based on the nano structures of a gecko’s foot which is able to climb up the smoothest surface. The gecko achieves this by nanoscopic bunches of hair thousands of times smaller than our own hair. Geckos utilise molecular forces called Van der Waal’s forces, which arise when electrical charges around molecules attract one another. The cumulative attractive force of billions of hairs allows geckos to run up vertical windows and walls and even hang upside down on polished glass. BAE Systems’ Advanced Technology Centre has recreated this technology as a glue-less adhesive. Synthetic Gecko is made by a modified version of a technique known as photolithography, commonly used to make silicon chips. The technique uses light to etch three-dimensional patterns into a material.

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Essentially it is what it looks like. A helium balloon able to ‘swim’ through the air like a jellyfish. The official version: -

Luft ist das Element von AirJelly. Die ferngesteuerte Qualle AirJelly schwimmt nicht durch Wasser wie AquaJelly, sondern gleitet förmlich dank ihres zentralen elektrischen Antriebs und einer intelligenten, adaptiven Mechanik durch das Luftmeer. Denn AirJelly besteht aus einem mit Helium gefüllten Ballonett.

Als einzige Energiequelle dienen AirJelly zwei Lithium-Ionen-Polymer-Akkus, an die der zentrale elektrische Antrieb angeschlossen ist. Dieser überträgt die Kraft auf ein Kegelrad und anschließend nacheinander auf acht Stirnräder, die über Kurbeln die acht Tentakel der Qualle bewegen. Jedes Tentakel ist als Struktur mit dem Fin Ray Effect® ausgebildet. Der Antrieb eines Ballons durch eine peristaltische Bewegung ist bis jetzt in der Luftfahrtgeschichte nicht bekannt. AirJelly ist das erste Indoor-Flugobjekt mit peristaltischem Antrieb. Die Qualle bewegt sich dank dieses neuen Antriebskonzepts, ihres auf dem Rückstoßprinzip basierenden Antriebs, sanft durch die Luft.

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Just married a 23 year old Abed (Muslim groom) and 19 year old Arige (Christian bride) walk through the bombed ruins of Beirut, Lebanon, 1983.

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Bedroom on top of the Holmenkollbakken in Oslo

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Titus Kaphar

For his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery, Kaphar presents a painting show titled “Drawing the Blinds,” along with an extension of his 2011 Jerome Project titled “Asphalt and Chalk.” The former maintain’s Kaphar’s practice of bringing history into the present, and traditional artwork into the contemporary conversation.

Many of the works allude to the historical absence of African Americans and women from the verbal and visual canons. In “Behind the Myth of Benevolence” a portrait of a silver-haired man is peeled back like a fallen drape, revealing behind it a nude depiction of a black woman, gazing at the viewer. In “Stripes,” a similarly stuffy portrait of a white man is cut into strips, many of which are nailed to the surrounding wall, exposing the wooden frame beneath. The image is both mischievous and violent, a ghostly hoax and a work of sadism.

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Digital and Analog Digital - representation by values of a physical quantity more qualitative  Analog - quantitative data patterns that have a comparative visibility  One can not work without the other | they inform and create one another but can still exist on ones own 

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Glasgow’s Hazelwood School for the Sensory Impaired. Designed by GM+AD Architects. Hazelwood is a school for children and young people, aged 2 to 18, who are blind and deaf – “dual sensory impaired”. "Architecturally, it is a new type of project. Many of the school’s children are physically handicapped and all have a degree of cognitive impairment. Together they represent the most acutely disabled children on the City of Glasgow’s education role. They will need lifetime support. I was determined to create a school which would support the needs of the children and the aspirations of their parents, a place of safety and ambition that would free the teacher and inspire the child.Hazelwood School has been a real success. The children and young people respond well to their new environment and appear to be thriving. They are supported by committed teachers in a bespoke school that their parents love and take ownership for. The building has received multiple national and international awards and I am delighted and humbled by the response to it." -  http://architizer.com/projects/hazelwood-school/

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