The work presented herein is part of a technical paper co-authored by Maria Mingallon (Arup, Senior Structural Engineer) and Sakthivel Ramaswamy (KRR Engineering, Director), published and presented at ASME 2011. That paper outlines the main findings of a broader biomimetics research study undertaken at the Architectural Association as part of the master program in Emergent Technologies and Design. The aim of their research was to derive the adaptable and performative logics of the dragonfly wing. Digital simulations in GSA were necessary to understand the multiple-pattern and corrugated geometries that give the wings their unique structural behavior and which are responsible of the high performance of dragonflies in passive flight.