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Nowadays, and under the global warming circumstances we are facing, particularly those resulting from the building sectors, many directions for more sustainable and eco-friendly concepts have emerged. From these sustainability approaches is the “Biomimicry” approach. This approach represents the science of imitating and benefiting from nature’s principles. Nature has provided various strategies to adapt to the surrounding conditions. There are several methodologies and tools developed following the biomimicry approach and taking nature as inspiration. However, difficulties arise in collaborating more than one discipline, which consumes a lot of time and effort, consequently cost. Furthermore, the existing methodologies are still too generic for architects. Therefore, this paper aims at developing a platform that integrates different methodologies, approaches, and tools comprehensively.In this paper, the focus would be on plant adaptations. A more focus would be on the building’s envelope specifically due to its valuable contribution to the building’s overall energy consumption. The paper seeks to integrate the plant’s adaptive strategies to the building envelope. The motivation is to tackle solutions for the building envelope environmental problems mainly for heat, water air, and light challenges.

The climate change we are facing nowadays is causing notable changes and harmful impacts to the environment. Therefore, there is a crucial need for sustainable practices, and efficient solutions to the CC problems. Nature have been constantly adapting to changing environmental conditions. Throughout history, nature have shown successful examples that we should learn from. "Biomimicry" is concerned with emulating nature models and systems. The term "biomimicry" comes from the Greek word "Bio" means "life" and "mimicry" to imitate. (Benyus, 1997). However, the sophistication and complexity of various database of nature, climate change, etc... require the integration of artificial intelligence to direct adaptation practices, manage the navigation through this large data. The paper will discuss the biomimicry approach and its role in mitigating climate change, followed by addressing the role of (AI) in managing the biomimetic database, weather data. Discussing how (AI) assist in leveraging variables, inputs, creating algorithms, automatically updating databases, offering scenarios, assist in decision making, and less time consuming. So that the designer's intervention is concerned with overriding the outcomes not starting from scratch, as well as combining the randomness of biomimetic data and the models that evolve overtime, interdisciplinary and the climatic changes, for the development of more efficient solutions.

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