For architect Michael Pawlyn, biology isn't just the inspiration for the way he designs buildings, but informs innovation at every stage of the design process. Drawing from nature, he tells The Conference in Malmo, is like benefitting from "a 3.8 billion year research and development period".
For one of his most recent projects -- a coworking space in London called "the Reef" -- he studied the multiple ways in which "biology captures and distributes daylight". He looked at the spookfish -- an animal that uses mirror in its eyes to capture light from multiple directions, and the stone plant, much of which is below ground but accesses light by funneling it through a roof window. He also looked at a breed of starfish that possesses light sensors on its arms that allow it to detect predators before it detects them.
By: Katie Collins,
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