Buildings, Energy and Environment Research Group

Biomimetic Architecture Seminar

 
Date(s)
Wednesday 19th November 2014 (09:45-16:30)
Contact

For further information please contact Senior Research Fellow Mark Worall.

T: 0115 84 67673
E: mark.worall@nottingham.ac.uk

Description
Seminar title: Biomimetic Architecture 

Programme

09:45 - 10:15
Registration (Coffee & Tea)

10:15 - 10:30 Welcome & Introduction 
Prof. Derek Clements-Croome, Chairperson of the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group

10:30 - 11:15
‘Agent Architecture: How nature builds’
Rupert Soar, Independent consultant and reader at Nottingham Trent University    

11:15 - 12:00
'Digital Biomimetics – on the fingers of one hand'
Julian Vincent, Independent consultant

12:00 - 12:45     
‘What is the architect doing in the jungle?‘
Petra Gruber, Visiting Professor, EiABC Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia                         

12:45 - 13:00
Questions

13:00 - 13:45
Networking Lunch

13:45 - 14:30
‘Social insects: building services engineers of the natural world’
Dr Mark Worall, Senior Research Fellow, the University of Nottingham

14:30 - 15:15
'Using smart materials to mimic nature in architecture'
Jonathan Gilder, PhD Student – University of Reading, UK.
                                     
15:15- 16.00
‘Biomimicry – Designing With Nature’
Yaniv Peer, Associate,  exploration-architecture, UK
 
16:00 - 16:15
Questions & Closing

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