How does mankind relate to its natural and built environments?
Architecture is linked to biology from a structural perspective since natural and artificial processes generate form. Natural forms, including biological forms, have inspired the constructions of human beings. Some architects have focused on the morphological aspect of nature.
1. What is biological structure/form?
2. Why do some built forms resemble biological forms?
3. What types of built forms correspond more closely to biological prototypes?
4. Do people like and feel comfortable with certain types of forms?
5. Why do people build certain types of biological forms?
6. Is it worthwhile looking at biological forms to influence what we build?
7. Do we gain more than just aesthetic pleasure -- such as physical and psychological benefits, for example -- from an environment that captures the biological structure?
8. Can we damage ourselves by living in and around forms that contradict biological forms?
9. How do we really understand biological structure well enough to use anything other than its superficial appearance?
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Humans look to nature for examples of natural form/function. However, in the built world, we forgo so called "organic" forms in favor of orthogonal forms that are easy to manufacture in great quantities and form logical connections to each other. It is interesting to see that humans have built so many structures for so many centuries using these "human-created" practical forms, and only recently have we looked at the structure of things existing in nature and attempt to mimic them.
ReplyDeleteForms created by nataure vary with respect to their environments. However, most buildings in places created by men resemble similar forms due to lack of creativity and cost efficiency...(that's what contracts think...which is very wrong).
ReplyDeleteForm ought to be guided by the natural conditions, and it needs to be a solution rather than a pretty object.
Why not less questions and more investigation.
ReplyDeleteTalk to Raedun
Talk to Raedun (she is working on something similar)
ReplyDeleteAlso, talk to Dale Clifford his class biologic is all about investigating the relationship between nature and material