The designers and architects who shape our world have a lot to learn from the existing natural world. All they must do is study and look deeper into nature.
Digital design has slowly but surely dominated the architectural scene and will inevitably be the whole future of architectural design. In particular, the art and sciences of biomimicry always personally interested me, and therefore would like to explore more into this field.

Biomimicry, in principle, is the mimicking of nature as the name implies and is applied directly into design. In essence, it is the direct observation of to find the solution to any problem. We have so much to learn from the countless species that have refined their systems for thousands and millions of years. Nature itself is not particularly efficient, but rather how the organisms evolve and how they manage to maximize their efficiency with the great limitation of the physical material composition is the key to analyse.

Designers and architects get inspiration from a lot of different places, usually from seeing case studies of already existing buildings, but many can benefit much more just by looking at the natural world. You can mimic its form, or its shape, and even the interaction with other objects. This could help a lot in forming ideas and concept which are far more organic and most likely to be successful since the natural counterpart is already in effect and fully functional.
Since in the biological world the species are also changing, this can lead to a powerful future of buildings that can adapt to their surroundings and changing with time. The Diagram Research Paper talks about the fascination of terms such as ‘static’, ‘form’ and ‘function’, that were incredibly popularised by architects such as Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in the beginning of the 20th century. This rather bold approach to architecture was changed drastically when opposite terms such as ‘flexibility’ and ‘flux’ were the focus in the 1960’s. This shows that the architects were starting to realise that a building has much more potential than just the basic form-finding. Biomimicry is a future that could eventually lead to buildings lasting much more by simulating a living organism, adapting and changing with time.

The whole idea of mimicking nature is not solely to create visually aesthetic designs that
blends with its surroundings, but rather to approach a building and trying to make it as efficient, both in terms of construction and cost effectiveness, as possible. By using cyber-physical programs such as Rhino’s Grasshopper, it can help to visualise how the structure will adapt and change. However, intricate and complex shapes could be expensive to manufacture within the limitations of technologies or materials available in the area, and so the designer must not be caught up with the efficiency of the building itself whilst undermining the costs and elaborate production of the actual construction. Therefore, a designer has to strike a balance between the two and act according to maximise the overall efficiency of the design process, beginning
to end.