OPTIMIZING ENERGY PERFORMANCE THROUGH BIOMIMICRY – A CASE OF TROPICAL CLIMATE

Abstract

In-office buildings, air conditioning (AC) is a prominent component that provides a comfortable indoor thermal environment but is also the major cause of energy consumption growth. Therefore, the harmful effects on the earth’s ecological life and the excessive energy needed for air conditioning in buildings have become a major problem in scientific studies. Animals in nature regulate their body temperature in the harsh situation without requiring fuel or causing harm to their environment. The focus of this research is to establish passive building envelope design techniques that optimize energy usage by emulating biological thermoregulation mechanisms for heat dissipation and cooling procedures in a tropical site setting/context of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It utilized a biomimetic approach which involved identifying specific challenges related to the thermophysical process in building design and determining the same difficulty that natural organisms face with their system and translating those solutions into envelope design techniques. ‘Theory of inventive problem-solving.’ is the term referring to this methodology. This technique describes how behavioral level biomimicry can be utilized to find solutions to our dilemma of generating building envelope strategies.