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Yazarlar: Zelal ÖZTOPRAK

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Biomimicry,Urban design,Sustainability,Efficiency,Holism

Özet: This study discusses the potential of biomimicry to encourage innovation in urban design and to provide a general perspective to practitioners, decision-makers, and scientists who shape urban paradigms to rethink the cities of future. This perspective proposes to act as nature, to approach problems as nature, beyond living with nature. Human beings live in the same environmental conditions as living things and face similar difficulties. Biomimicry provides the opportunity to examine life’s principles that have been developed and improved by nature with its experience over many years and transfer them to our designs. This study proposes that biomimicry based design will solve many of the problems in today’s cities. Further, it suggests that these solutions will increase the efficiency of the cities and enable more sustainable decisions regarding the city. Two main topics have been the focus of the study: reconsidering the concept of efficiency in cities and thinking of the city in a holistic way. After explaining the concept of biomimicry and existing design methods, the study discusses basic principles that can be transferred from nature to urban design. Then, it gives examples from world cities. Consequently, it provides a framework for designing the city like nature.

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