classifying bio structures and their meanings.

2. The structures giving biological analogy in their form, material
application, functionality etc are coined as BIO STRUCTURES
The premise behind bio-architecture is that all life responds well to
design that is in accordance with nature and avoids harmful materials
and sharp corners, which literally bleed (haemorrhage) capacitive
charge.
Bio structures Create living space by observing some simple rules:
1. Use natural geometries, shapes, forms, ratios and growth patterns to design our spaces in
order to create life and truly sustainable systems. This is 'Full Spectrum Architecture' –
not just 'green architecture‘
2. Use virtually ALL biologic materials - to create fractal charge field effects (avoid particularly
aluminium and steel - also plastics wherever at all possible)
3. Plan structures by observing for negative ion potential, and environmental magnetic maps-
to find the place of healing (non-destructive charge compression).
4. Make detailed plans to eliminate most all electro smog - the adverse affects of electrical
contamination. (Seriously poisonous to most biology)
5. Include paramagnetic stone arrays (dolmen, stone circle, and labyrinth) kinds of structure
external and or internal - to create rose petal like attraction for living charge.
6. Work with elemental forces under, on and above the land - (living charge domains) - to
include the symphony of life in your structural plan

4. STRUCTURES WHOSE OUTER FORM IS INSPIRED FROM BIO – LIVING STRUCTURES IS
KNOWN AS BIOMIMICRY. THE TERM BIOMIMICRY COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD
BIOS, MEANING LIFE, AND MIMESIS MEANING TO IMITATE.
THE EMERGING FIELD OF BIOMIMICRY HAS GIVEN RISE TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES
CREATED FROM BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ENGINEERING IN BOTH THE MACRO SCALE AND
NANOSCALE LEVELS.
THE TERM BIOMIMICRY WAS POPULARIZED BY SCIENTIST AND AUTHOR JANNIE BANYUS
IN HER 1997 BOOK BIOMIMICRY: INNOVATION INSPIRED BY NATURE.
FRANK O GEHRY - FISH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS shaped building

5. FLOWER shaped building
Surrounded by a picturesque lake
and forested hills, Korea is set to
create a sustainable township
which will be a self sufficient city
of 77,000 inhabitants, to be
located about 35 km south of
Seoul, South Korea. Called
Gwanggyo, all elements of the new
town will be designed as rings so
that each part of the program has
The landscape that is created makes the building
a terrace for outdoor life.
resemble a series of
OVERGROWN GREEN ‘HILLS.

6. This is a six-story elephant-shaped structure weighing 90 tonnes. Lucy was constructed in
1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey in an effort to sell real estate and
attract tourism. Lucy had served as a restaurant, business office, cottage, and tavern over
the years.
In the 1960s, Lucy was in bad condition and was scheduled for destruction. It has been
moved and refurbished as a result of a "Save Lucy" campaign in 1970 and was designated
as a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

7. ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE IS A PHILOSOPHY OF ARCHITECTURE WHICH PROMOTES HARMONY
BETWEEN HUMAN HABITATION AND THE NATURAL/BIO WORLD THROUGH DESIGN
APPROACHES SO SYMPATHETIC AND WELL INTEGRATED WITH ITS SITE THAT BUILDINGS,
FURNISHINGS, AND SURROUNDINGS BECOME PART OF A UNIFIED, INTERRELATED
COMPOSITION.
THE IDEA OF ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE REFERS NOT ONLY TO THE BUILDINGS LITERAL
RELATIONSHIP TO THE NATURAL SURROUNDINGS, BUT HOW THE BUILDINGS DESIGN IS
CAREFULLY THOUGHT ABOUT AS IF IT WERE A UNIFIED ORGANISM.
ORGANIC ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN READS:
"LET THE DESIGN:
• BE INSPIRED BY NATURE AND BE SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHY, CONSERVING, AND DIVERSE.
• UNFOLD, LIKE AN ORGANISM, FROM THE SEED WITHIN.
• EXIST IN THE "CONTINUOUS PRESENT" AND "BEGIN AGAIN AND AGAIN".
• FOLLOW THE FLOWS AND BE FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE.
• SATISFY SOCIAL, PHYSICAL, AND SPIRITUAL NEEDS.
• GROW OUT OF THE SITE AND BE UNIQUE.
• CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH, PLAY AND SURPRISE.
• EXPRESS THE RHYTHM OF MUSIC AND THE POWER OF DANCE."

8. THE EASTGATE CENTRE AND
A TERMITE MOUND
This building is the Eastgate Center, a highrise
in Zimbabwe. It employs a passive cooling
system that was inspired by the local termite mounds. I was reading about termite
mounds in Animal Architecture by Karl von Frisch. The termites cool their mounds by way
of ducts and chambers. The walls are porous and allow carbon dioxide to escape and
oxygen to come in. The air is cooled during its passage through ridges towards the cellar
by way of wide ducts. From there it returns to the nest replacing the rising warm air.

9. For example, where glass meets stone walls
there is no metal frame; rather, the glass and its
horizontal dividers were run into a caulked recess in
the stonework so that the stone walls appear
uninterrupted by glazing.
From the cantilevered living room,
a stairway leads directly down to the stream below, &
in a connecting space which connects the main house
with the guest and servant level, a natural spring drips
water inside, which is then channeled back out.
FALLING WATER Bedrooms are small, some with low ceilings to
encourage people outward toward the open social
Falling water stands as one of Wright's areas, decks, and outdoors.
greatest masterpieces both for its Bear Run and the sound of its water
dynamism and for its integration with permeate the house, especially during the spring
the striking natural surroundings. when
Strongly reflects in the design of Falling the snow is melting, and locally quarried stone walls &
water ,the importance of cantilevered terraces resembling the nearby rock
interpenetrating exterior and interior formations are meant to be in harmony. The design
spaces and the strong emphasis placed incorporates broad expanses of windows and
on harmony between man and nature. balconies
which reach out into their surroundings.

10. Interesting organic architecture raising
up to 600 meters. VINCENT CALLEBAUT’s
DRAGONFLY is a concept of an urban
farm concept for New York City’s
Roosevelt Island.
BAMBOO ARCHITECTURE

11. NAUTILUS BY JAVIER SENOSIAIN
This amazing house was designed by
Javier Senosiain., wishes that suburbs
had these homes - instead of building
boxes, & could mould the earth into
Natural, organic individuality.

12. These so-called Botany Buildings by
students from the University of Stuttgart
use trees that meet a series of critical
criteria, from fast growth rates to
flexibility, adaptability and durability.
The core structures are augmented
with artificial elements and can be used
to support everything from rooms and
platforms to towers and walkways.

13. Unlike conventional construction,
there are many unique challenges
that come with custom tree
building techniques. Connections
must be checked and added by
hand as growth progresses,
variations in strength have to be
accounted for and stability is
paramount – these are just some
the flip-sides of using living and
growing materials.
While there are limitations
to this kind of construction, tree
buildings have a great deal of
potential for do-it-yourself types
who enjoy having a hand in the
creation of their own alternative-
style abode.

14. THE WORD BIONIC WAS COINED BY JACK E. STEELE IN 1958, POSSIBLY ORIGINATING FROM THE
TECHNICAL TERM BION MEANING 'UNIT OF LIFE' AND THE SUFFIX -IC, MEANING 'LIKE' OR 'IN
THE MANNER OF', HENCE 'LIKE LIFE'. SOME DICTIONARIES, HOWEVER, EXPLAIN THE WORD AS
BEING FORMED AS A PORTMANTEAU FROM BIOLOGY + ELECTRONICS. IT WAS POPULARIZED BY
THE 1970’s TELEVISION SERIES THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN AND THE BIONIC WOMAN,
WHICH WERE INFLUENCED BY STEELE'S WORK, AND FEATURE HUMANS GIVEN SUPERHUMAN
POWERS BY ELECTROMECHANICAL IMPLANTS.
THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN LIFEFORMS AND MANUFACTURES IS,
ACCORDING TO PROPONENTS OF BIONIC TECHNOLOGY, DESIRABLE BECAUSE EVOLUTIONARY
PRESSURE TYPICALLY FORCES LIVING ORGANISMS, INCLUDING FAUNA AND FLORA, TO BECOME
HIGHLY OPTIMIZED AND EFFICIENT.
Based on bionics, it uses a gecko’s innovative foot design as a
template to climb walls without any artificial adhesion. Though
it may not look like it, a gecko’s foot is hairy, fine enough to
only be seen on the micro level. This molecular adhesion,
combined with C-Bot’s array of ultrasonic sensors means
costly (and ugly) scaffolding may be obsolete.
So … it’s essentially a bionic climbing robot which creates a
diagnosis of the building fabric designed by Niklas Galler.

15. The sensor emits ultra-sonic rays and gets the
required information through specific ray reflection.
Inner damages of buildings, like rust inside of
reinforced concrete, or mildew infected walls,
can be detected. Three symmetry axis enables the
robots to move in different directions, without
gearing. The complex leg architecture, qualifies the
C-Bot to navigate and kind of edge or spherical
surface – also vertical walls constitue no problem.
C-Bot can be steered via GPS or a 3D-map with all
required information can be uploaded on its hard disk.

16. Eco-Pod is a proposal to
immediately stimulate the
economy, and the ecology, of
downtown Boston.
Eco-Pod is a temporary vertical
algae bio-reactor and new
public Commons, built with
custom prefabricated modules.
The pods will serve as bio-fuel
sources and as micro-incubators
for flexible research and
development programs. As an
An on-site robotic armature (powered by the algae bio-fuel) open and reconfigurable
is designed to reconfigure the modules to maximize algae structure, the voids between
growth conditions and to accommodate evolving spatial and pods form a network of vertical
programmatic conditions in real-time. The reconfigurable public parks/botanical gardens
modular units allow the structure to transform to meet housing unique plant species-
changing programmatic and economic needs, while the a new Uncommon for the
continuous construction on the site will broadcast a subtle Commons.
semaphore of constructional activity and economic recovery.
This is anticipatory architecture, capable of generating a new
micro-urbanism that is local, agile, and carbon net positive.

17. GEOTUBE’S SELF BUILDING FACADE
Faulders Studiofrom Berkeley California has
created a facade system for a building
proposal in Dubai that builds itself over time,
a “living-building” of sorts. A seemingly
transparent mesh is actively sprayed with
water from the Persian Gulf (some of the
saltiest ocean waters on earth) and over
time crystal deposits will form the facade
into a textured opaque surface.

18. Diagram Showing The
Initial Mesh That Will
Host The Slowly
Growing Collection Of
Salt Left Behind After
The Water Evaporates
In Dubai’s Extreme
Heat.
The below image shows the progression they predict over time.

19. APPLYING TECHNIQUES AND METHODS LEARNED FROM BOTANY AND APPROPRIATED FROM
SCIENCE AND DEVELOPING A GENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE IS BIOMIMETICS ARCHITECTURE.,
IT MAY A COMBINATION OF BIOMIMICRY AND BIONIC ARCHITECTURE.
THE ARIZONA TOWER
Modeled after a living plants
roots, the digital roots seen in
the illustrations anchor the
building and then develop into a
branching building frame,
astatically but structurally allied
to an engineered building frame.
At the tip of the roots and the tip
of the branches, the structure
grows water storage tanks
underground, then, at the skyline,
leaves are hybridized into solar
panels.

20. For building access and
circulation a series of seedpods
are morphed into a double,
spiraling stairway; while a second set
of flower pods are morphed into
domestic or office space.
It is not a digital shell supported by
existing building techniques and
old construction technologies.
The Arizona Tower begins to align
its own digital production and formal
logic with its inherited botanic form
reinterpreted and grown with
computational systems for digital
production with natural, non-toxic,
biomimetic materials.

21. MATERIAL PROPERTIES ARE STRUCTURE-DEPENDENT, NEW AND INTERESTING PROPERTIES ARE
EXPECTED FROM UNUSUAL OR COMPLEX STRUCTURES. BIOMORPHIC MINERALIZATION IS A
TECHNIQUE THAT PRODUCES MATERIALS WITH MORPHOLOGIES AND STRUCTURES RESEMBLING
THOSE OF NATURE LIVING THINGS, THROUGH EMPLOYING BIO-STRUCTURES AS TEMPLATES FOR
MINERALIZATION.
STO LOTUSAN
Silicone resin paint with
lotus-effect

22. PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS
• Water dilutable, physiologically and ecologically safe (free from aromatic solvents)
• Highly impermeable to water as soon as coating has cured
• Highest water repellency achievable for coatings
• Effectively reduced adhesion of dirt particles
• Excellent weather-, chalk- and UV- resistance
• Excellent breathability for water vapor and CO2
• Increased natural protection against algae and fungal attack owing to removal of the
elements fundamental to their existence, i.e. water and dirt deposits
• Ideal protection against humidity and dirt, even for highly-stressed weather-exposed facades
• Excellent adhesion to mineral and organic substrates
• Easy application by brush, roller and airless spray
• Mineral, extremely matt finish.
How the lotus effect works:
Sto Lotusan has a micro-structural surface
which considerably reduces the contact
Larchmont
area for dirt particles and water.
Lotus,
Combined with Sto silicone quality, this
a
results in a super hydrophobic, water-repellent
medical center
surface. Dirt particles which adhere only
in Los Angeles
loosely, are easily carried away by raindrops.

23. COCOON_FS visualizes both – natural light weight construction
COCOON_FS as well as highly efficient technical design solutions. With its
weight of only 750 kg, the pavilion can easily be transported to
any location. In the sense of stability the floating construction
is able to withstand thunderstorms. The self supporting shell
of COCOON_FS is made of FRP (fiber reinforced polymers) that
forms the skin and the supporting structure in one.
The FRP composite design is optimized by all design parameters
including broad iterative research of parametric design,
production needs. Compared to biological solutions in nature,
COCOON_FS is to be seen as morphogenetic design.

24. FUNGI BUILDING BLOCKS
The fungal building block concept is not only
environmentally sound — it requires only readily
available waste organic material and needs no
extra energy — but it may also have the capacity
to clean the environment. Bioremediation uses
fungus to break down toxic organic material into
inert building blocks—imagine transforming
superfund sites into factories that produce
regenerative building products.
Houses made from mushrooms used to be
for smurfs — but the creative folks at
Terreform one and Planetary one
Intend to create real houses from the
prodigious plant. They are developing a
new breed of “Mycoform” building blocks
made from mushrooms that can literally
Grow themselves. The project uses a
vegetative form of fungus known as
mycelium, whose tendrils develop into a
thick matt. In fact the growth of the fungus
is so prodigious it can be considered the
Largest living thing on the planet.

25. This tower takes an active stance and attacks the problem
of dirty air by aiming to help purify the air of our cities. The
tower pulls dirt, grease, and bacteria out of the air,
producing only oxidation and water as a result. The reaction
is triggered by the use of a nano-coating of titanium dioxide
on the outer skin of the project. The reaction is naturally
powered by sunlight acting on the titanium dioxide during
the day and supplemented by ultra violet light at night.
These UV lights are powered by energy collected through
PV panels during the day. The tower will be a glowing indigo
object at night varying in intensity according to the amount
of solar energy collected during the day. The indigo glow
will become symbolic of the cleansing, counteracting the
yellow haze that dominates the daytime hours.
The skin design is inspired by the pocketed and cellular texture of
the titanium dioxide molecule (TiO2). A series of organic cells cover
the building and are tapered to naturally collect the water, a
byproduct of the skins chemical reaction, and to collect and slowly
release rain water. The skin pulls off of the building on the south
facades to provide natural shading and pushes into the inner skin
of the north façade to maximize daylight and provide fifty percent
coverage to reduce heat loss during the winter months. The skin
also floats off the building to conceal the UV lights which can be
harmful to humans who are directly exposed to it, and further
maximizes the building’s envelope.

26. Working Of TiO2 FACADE