The American University in Cairo School of Sciences & Engineering Department of Construction & Architectural Engineering Spring 2010 AENG 454:Architectural Design Studio 4

1. School of Sciences & Engineering
Department of Construction & Architectural Engineering
Spring 2010
AENG 454:Architectural Design Studio 4

2. It is all about the

3. AENG 454:Architectural Design Studio 4 -Spring 2010
Main Inspiration: Learn from
bionics
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• Explorative journey into
the kingdom of nature
searching for a natural
element
(plant, animal, insect…)
that presents a clear
structural concept
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• Group of two students
will embark on an in-
depth research process
into the world and
structure of their chosen
natural element
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• Exploration by the group
is to attempt to express
the emergent
understanding and the
concept statement
through a full scale built
structure
Architecture
• Each student will
develop a detailed
program an Info Pavilion
for BIONIC Research
(possibly related to our
DDC) that is to be
constructed on the new
campus grounds of the
AUC

4. Desert Rose
Insect Eye AENG 454: Architectural Design Studio 4 Spring 2010
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Lung
Leaf
Bamboo

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Research
“Reaching practicality through uniform spreading and sequential balanced”
“out of the ordinary beauty emerges”
“Random perfectly balanced; hollow yet self supported”
“From lifeless network, life is sustained”
“Unity breeding a structure of dynamic perception”
“oneness through division”
“Replicated, Interconnected structure”
“Structure molded upon functional idea”

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Architecture

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