A biomimética como ferramenta para o desenvolvimento de edificações resilientes e produção de abrigos para os refugiados climáticos

Abstract

Through mechanisms and strategies developed over billions of years of evolution, nature constantly faces several climate challenges, or those related to its ecosystem. Such mechanisms, improved over time, could be used as a source of inspiration in the development of products, systems, technologies and buildings, for example. That is how Biomimicry emerged: a concept created in 20th century and which has been gaining notoriety in the 21st century, when translated as a discipline that moves between different areas such as biology, design, computing, engineering and architecture; and aims to learn and develop techniques based on the study and analysis of solutions that nature has already developed. Through this work, we will demonstrate how this discipline has become an opportunity to incorporate new concepts and strategies into architectural projects that aim building efficiency and climate resilience, as well as contributing to the development of innovative, multifunctional materials and consequently improving the relationship between human beings and the environment. For this, we will study the biomimetics applied in architecture and project a model of housing for climate refugees through the application of bioinspired techniques in living organisms, making it temporarily possible to solve the homelessness of those individuals, which was affected by natural disasters as a response from the nature’s negative reaction over the human predatory behavior.