Energy efficiency is an emerging challenge for the built environment due to rapid
urbanisation. The built environment impacts human health and comfort, along with …

By 2050, 68% of the world's population will likely live in cities. Human settlements depend
on resources, benefits, and services from ecosystems, but they also tend to deplete …

Biomimicry is an interdisciplinary approach to study and transfer principles or mechanisms
from nature to solve design challenges, frequently differentiated from other design …

A change in thinking has been ongoing in the architecture and building industry in response
to growing concern over the role of the building industry in the excessive consumption of …

Abstract Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are gaining momentum as potential solutions to
restore, preserve and enhance ecosystem services for societal challenges, in general. In …

There have been many studies on bio-inspired research, where biomimicry capabilities
facilitating sustainable designs are in dearth. For a sustainable design, it is necessary to …

Globally, the construction sector is regarded as one of the major contributors to greenhouse
gas emissions, energy consumption, freshwater usage, resource utilization, and solid waste …

Incorporating and drawing analogies from natural systems has always been an important
consideration for designers, however owing to the complexity involved in the natural …

Biomimicry applications in different domains, from material science to technology, have
proven to be promising in inspiring innovative solutions for present-day challenges …

Biomimicry is a growing field of developing environmental innovations for materials, facade
systems, buildings, and urban planning. In France, we observe an extensive diversity of …