Biomimicry inspired designs for daylighting in Ecuador
- Authors
- Fern?ndez Y?nez, Andr?s
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
This research focuses in the development of biomimetic design to maximize the use of daylight during the day for a teaching room located in Ecuador. The content includes a literature review about biomimicry, then a description of the methodology to follow, an explanation of animal and plant strategies that uses natural light, a description of the geographical, activity and site context, the design creation and development, the light performance of designs through software simulation then the results are presented and finally conclusions and recommendations. Biomimicry is a source of inspiration to create novel and sustainable processes for technical, economic or social systems based on nature, so to create new daylight designs the BioGen methodology (Badarnah & Kadri, 2014) has been applied with ten examples of organisms that manage daylight in different ways, resulting in two types of designs: four morpho designs that are related with the structures and shapes in a macro scale and one physiodesign that is related with the function of structures in a nano scale; only the morpho designs were evaluated using software, the combined morpho design was the one with most satisfactory results with better illuminance for different sky conditions. Concluding biomimicry is a real source of inspiration on daylighting design, the BioGen methodology has served to the purpose of creating new designs on tropical rooftops and it does not represent a limitation when other ideas are incorporated to the design and the nanoproperties found in nature can be studied further to incorporate new properties to construction materials.
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- BIOMIMICRY
ENERGY USE
LIGHTING DESIGN
TROPICAL ZONE
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- openAccess