Biomimicry with Steel Sheets: Designing "DNA" Into Materials Can Create Architecture that Shapes Itself

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This article was originally published by Autodesk's Redshift publication as "Haresh Lalvani on Biomimicry and Architecture That Designs Itself."

It’s the holy grail for any biomimicry design futurist: buildings and structures that use generative geometry to assemble and repair themselves, grow, and evolve all on their own. Buildings that grow like trees, assembling their matter through something like genomic instructions encoded in the material itself.

To get there, architecture alone won’t cut it. And as such, one designer, Haresh Lalvani, is among the most successful at researching this fundamental revision of architecture and fabrication. (Or is it “creation and evolution”?) He employs a wildly interdisciplinary range of tools to further this inquiry: biology; mathematics; computer science; and, most notably, art.

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Cite: Zach Mortice. "Biomimicry with Steel Sheets: Designing "DNA" Into Materials Can Create Architecture that Shapes Itself" 15 Feb 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/805416/biomimicry-with-steel-sheets-designing-dna-into-materials-can-create-architecture-that-constructs-itself> ISSN 0719-8884

X-POD 138 pavilion structure, currently installed at the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York. Image Courtesy of Haresh Lalvani

生物钢板模拟:将“DNA”植入可创建自我构建的建筑物材料中

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