BIOMIMETIC STRATEGIES FOR FORM OF TALL BUILDINGS

Abstract

The idea of this dissertation is to arrive at a process that can be used as a guide to help in deriving the forms of tall buildings based on biomimicry. This process is visualized in the form of a flowchart or a logical map, which makes it easier to understand and adopt in the field and modify as per need. To arrive at the process the dissertation is divided into essentially three parts. The first part consists of the study of Biomimicry in detail, which includes the history, present scenario, its application in architecture, the study of the three levels and five dimensions of biomimicry. Based on these studies a certain set of biomimetics strategies' are developed. The second part of this dissertation deals with the study of tall buildings and particularly the factors that influence its form. This study is done on the basis of mostly literature and secondary studies. On the basis of these studies, certain number of criteria, sub criteria and factors are identified. It is to these criteria that the biomimetic strategies are applied to help in achieving the result that are based on biomimicry. The third and final part of the dissertation deals with the actual creation of the process. Based on the concept of TRIZ a process of problem solving is mapped, which is then used as a base to create a process of design of form for tall buildings by using the method of analogy. This process that is achieved is then made modular to preserve the freedom of creativity of the design and as well as the designer. A set of four modules are created based on the identified criteria and their respective biomimetic strategies to be accommodated into the main process. There are primary and secondary checks inside and outside the module to check the intra and inter modular compatibility of the derived results. Once all the modules are in place the process is complete and this process can be used as a guide to help in deriving the forms of tall buildings based on the biornirnetic paradigm. The idea of creating such a guide is to reduce the complexity involved in the process of form design of tall buildings based on biomimicry, due to the reason that the default process of intuitive and logical thinking can often lead to ambiguity at various stages, and ifthis process is formalized there is a significant reduction in complexity due to presence ofpre-mapped micro process modules that help in identifying and tackling issues easily and also so that this kind of a process has a capacity to evolve and be adjusted as per need.