Inspired by nature animals : the building/biology connection Alejandro Bahamón, Patricia Pérez.
Idioma: Español Detalles de publicación: New York W.W. Norton 2009.Descripción: 191 p. ill. (chiefly col.) 24 cmISBN:- 9780393732719 (pbk.)
- Animals the building/biology connection
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A look at how nature serves as a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.
Nature has always furnished stimulating ideas for the design of architecture, and the use of animal forms in contemporary architecture--whether to endow a project with symbolism, find a functional solution, or simply for aesthetic reasons--has become a commonplace practice. Inspired by Nature: Animals focuses on specific analogies, comparing and contrasting techniques and materials used in animal constructions with examples of human architecture. It gathers together the work of two dozen architects who have drawn on such structures as tortoise and snail shells, spiders' webs and birds' nests, beehives and beaver lodges.
Among the built examples from around the world are inventive projects such as Elephant Skin House (PPAG Architects, Austria), Kiss the Frog! (mmw architects, Norway), Moore Apiary (Marlon Blackwell, Cashiers, North Carolina), Concrete Pod (Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio, Nagoya, Japan), and more, beautifully illustrated in colorful photographs supplemented by plans. The visual analogies underline how architects can find elegant solutions and create new, sustainable, and efficient architectonic forms by the close and understanding observation of nature.
Originally published in Spanish: Barcelona : Parramon Ediciones, c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anatomical structures : Casar de Cáceres Bus Station / Justo García Rubio ; Glasgow Science Museum / Building Design Partnership ; Torrevieja Park / Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects ; Brno Airport Departure Terminal / Petr Parolek ; SECC Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center / Foster + Partners ; Conversion of a windmill / José Gigante ; Saving the bacon / fnp architekten ; Hall West Gallery / UNStudio ; Laren House / MONK architecten ; Elephant skin house / PPAG Architects ; Kiss the frog! The art of transformation / mmw architects -- Animal constructive structures : Vogelnest Observatory / Freie Architekten ; Keenan Tower / Marlon Blackwell ; Mur Island / Acconci Studio ; River Restaurant / matti ragaz hitz architekten ; Gruta das Torres / SAMI.arquitectos -- Social animal constructive structures : Beehive / Eric Owen Moss Architects ; Izola Apartments / OFIS arhitekti ; Moore Apiary / Marlon Blackwell ; Davies Alpine Greenhouse / Wilkinson Eyre Architects ; Hysteric Ballroom / bube architects ; Coral City Island / Damian Figueras -- Temporary animal structures : SH House / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Architects ; Plashet Bridge / Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects ; Concrete Pod / Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio ; Free University of Berlin / Foster + Partners.
Alibris, Jan/17/2012, 2012-455.
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Alejandro Bahamón , an architect, photographer, and editor of architecture books, is the author of numerous publications on contemporary architecture, including Sketch Plan Build, The Magic of Tents, Treehouses, Glass Houses, Houses on the Edge , and (with Ana María Álvarez), Light Color Sound . He lives in Barcelona.Patricia Pérez , a landscape engineer, directs the landscape architecture department at the Diputación de Barcelona and is a professor in the master of landscape architecture program at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña.