Journal Article10.1260/026635102320321789
Nature Teaching Structures
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors try to find an example of a conceptual design which is extremely appropriate in its morphology, well adapted to the surroundings, structurally and functionally optimised, and has a refined and appropriate appearance.
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Abstract: If one is looking for an example of a conceptual design which is extremely appropriate in its morphology, well adapted to the surroundings, structurally and functionally optimised, and has a refined and appropriate appearance – all in one single configuration – you have either an exceptional and rare piece of fine architecture – or a common organism in Nature. That is why Nature makes an excellent object for architectural students to study structures from a conceptual and a morphological point of view. And that is why Nature – who has developed her structural systems by trial-and-error through millions of years – acts as an excellent teacher of these topics. At the same time, the idiom of Nature seems to possess a considerable attraction for students and is able to convey inspiration and imagination to the creative process of shaping architectural structures. In our surrounding living and nonliving nature a number of striking statical and kinematical peculiarities have been observed. The paper will try to...
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