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BIOMIMETICPRECEDENTSDYNAMIC SPACE

biomimicry or biomimetics is put very basically deriving inspiration in architecture or really any discipline from the natural world. there is a vast number of inspirational ideas and precedents when it comes to nature and biomimetic architecture.

inspiration can take so many forms weather that is materiality, mimicing the form of something nature or providing the same function through design of that natural element.

times eureka pavilion \ neXt architecturecanopy \ united visual artistsvoltadom \ skylar tibbits

CASESTUDIESVOLTADOM

mit is a very technical heavy school and being a festival celebrating art, science and technology this seems to me to be quite a fitting installation because the project itself come under all three of those branches.

this acts as an art piece enhanced by the references to the grand vaults of old cathedrals. for me an interesing juXtaposition between the forms of old and the technology of new that went

into the making of the piece.

the installation in also at the forefront, architecturally, of both technology and science. digital methods have been used not only in design but in fabrication as well utilizing laser cutting.

this project is quite interesting and produces quite an amazing interior space.

CASESTUDIESCANOPY PROJECT

the canopy designed by united visual artists is a light

sculpture for the footpath of the maple leaf square

building in toronto, canada.

the light filled instalation spans a huge 90 metres and houes hundreds of individual leaf shaped

boXes. some of the boXes are simply finished in metal however, most act as light

boXes which are programed turn on and off individually

creating a spectacular show for pasers by.

the canopy is designed to mimic the dapled light when walking through a forrest environment. the modules

are arranged within the structure in a non-uniform

growth pattern abstacted in form by the shape of a leaf with a combination of both artificial and natural light source bleeding through.

there are multiple scales at which the installation can be

viewed, from their website they have likened the pattern and

light show to be reminisent of the cells of an individual leaf, leafs within a forrest canopy

or even the twinkling lights of a city scape as seen from above.

there is a video on their website showing the light

work in action and it is eXtremely mezmorizing. the

light flicker and dapple in an almost choregraphed dance.

bouncing of one another they seeem to be reacting

to thier suroundings.

this brings quite a playful life-like nature to the

structure. the lights almost look as if they are playing

with each other whilst jumping around the conopy.

DESIGNVALUES

TO CREATE A HUB FOR THE USERS OF THE BIKE / RUNNING PATH TO ACHIEVE A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF THE SITE. USING NATURAL LIGHT MOVE PEOPLE TO NOT JUST RUN PAST

AND MISS THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF THE SITE ITSELF.

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