Saeideh Nekouee - Graduate Student of Architecture, Kashan University,
Mahdi Akhtarkavan - Academic Staff Member of Architecture, Kashan University

Throughout history, architects have looked to nature for inspiration for building forms and approaches to decoration. Biomimicry is an applied science that derives inspiration for solutions to human problems through the study of natural designs, processes and systems. Referring to the nature for answering this matter can be useful since nature has tried its methods over the years. This research aims to study one particular aspect of nature as sourcebook that is distinct from the majority of architectural references to the natural world. The intention is to study ways of translating adaptations in biology into solutions in architecture. Many current approaches to environmentally sustainable architecture are based on mitigation . The suggestion from the examples collected in this research is that it is possible to go further than this, and for buildings and cities to be regenerative. In some cases, buildings will cease to be static consumers and can become net producers of useful resources. The intention is therefore to transcend the mimicking of natural forms and attempt to understand the principles that lie behind those forms and systems. Then we can look for opportunities to create works of architecture that are celebratory as well as being radically more resource efficient. The project first highlights the recent concepts inspired by nature and then attempts to introduce the steps -Methodologies- to architects and architecture students so as to get capable of creating Biomimetic designs.

Biomimicry, Nature , Architecture , Methodologies