DANE: Fostering Creativity in and through Biologically Inspired Design

Vattam, Swaroop; Wiltgen, Bryan; Helms, Michael; Goel, Ashok K.; Yen, Jeannette

doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-224-7_16

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“…Its complexity further increases, and often conflicts arise, when integrating a number of strategies from different systems to achieve a design solution [50,51]. Several biomimetic approaches have emerged in the last decade to assist the transitions between domains [52][53][54]. Yet, clear indications to architectural design are still limited.…”

Section: Biomimeticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Form Follows Environment: Biomimetic Approaches to Building Envelope Design for Environmental Adaptation

Badarnah

2017

Buildings

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Building envelopes represent the interface between the outdoor environment and the indoor occupied spaces. They are often considered as barriers and shields, limiting solutions that adapt to environmental changes. Nature provides a large database of adaptation strategies that can be implemented in design in general, and in the design of building envelopes in particular. Biomimetics, where solutions are obtained by emulating strategies from nature, is a rapidly growing design discipline in engineering, and an emerging field in architecture. This paper presents a biomimetic approach to facilitate the generation of design concepts, and enhance the development of building envelopes that are better suited to their environments. Morphology plays a significant role in the way systems adapt to environmental conditions, and provides a multi-functional interface to regulate heat, air, water, and light. In this work, we emphasize the functional role of morphology for environmental adaptation, where distinct morphologies, corresponding processes, their underlying mechanisms, and potential applications to buildings are distinguished. Emphasizing this morphological contribution to environmental adaptation would enable designers to apply a proper morphology for a desired environmental process, hence promoting the development of adaptive solutions for building envelopes.

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Section: Biomimeticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Form Follows Environment: Biomimetic Approaches to Building Envelope Design for Environmental Adaptation

Badarnah

2017

Buildings

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“…F(S) abstraction hierarchy, and (5) provides an ontology for representing its structures, functions and behaviors. DANE also enables designers to construct and refine StructureBehavior-Function (SBF) models of biological and engineering systems [8]. In other work on learning about complex ecological systems in middle school science, we have found that construction of SBF models enables students to acquire conceptual understanding of the systems [9].…”

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“…We are grateful to the US National Science Foundation that has generously supported this research through an NSF CreativeIT Grant (#0855916) entitled Computational Tools for Enhancing Creativity in Biologically Inspired Engineering Design. A longer paper on DANE is available in [8].…”

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Learning Functional Models of Biological Systems for Biologically Inspired Design

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2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies

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Abstract-Biologically inspired design uses cross-domain analogies from biology to engineering to enhance design creativity and innovation. This analogical transfer requires conceptual understanding of biological systems. In this paper, we describe a prototype interactive knowledge-based design environment called DANE for supporting conceptual understanding through learning about functional models of biological designs. We present initial results from deploying DANE in an interdisciplinary class on biologically inspired design, indicating that designers found DANE's functional models useful for conceptualizing complex systems.

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“…In BID, biological knowledge is applied in the technological context through biological analogy [85,86]. Biological knowledge is transformed into technological designs by using four approaches, namely, biological terms comprehension, biological escape, variable transformation, and analogical transformation.…”

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Creative design inspired by biological knowledge: Technologies and methods

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Biological knowledge is becoming an important source of inspiration for developing creative solutions to engineering design problems and even has a huge potential in formulating ideas that can help firms compete successfully in a dynamic market. To identify the technologies and methods that can facilitate the development of biologically inspired creative designs, this research briefly reviews the existing biological-knowledge-based theories and methods and examines the application of biological-knowledge-inspired designs in various fields. Afterward, this research thoroughly examines the four dimensions of key technologies that underlie the biologically inspired design (BID) process. This research then discusses the future development trends of the BID process before presenting the conclusions.

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DANE: Fostering Creativity in and through Biologically Inspired Design

Cited by 118 publications

References 19 publications

Form Follows Environment: Biomimetic Approaches to Building Envelope Design for Environmental Adaptation

Form Follows Environment: Biomimetic Approaches to Building Envelope Design for Environmental Adaptation

Learning Functional Models of Biological Systems for Biologically Inspired Design

Creative design inspired by biological knowledge: Technologies and methods

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