Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
KERPIC’23 Gain Information from the Traditional Earthen Architecture, Diyarbakır, Türkiye, 26 - 28 Ekim 2023, ss.44-51
Studies of natural systems have at all times been inspirational for design. Biomimicry in design is
often unfairly associated with the stylistic imitation of natural forms, but Janine Benyus – the
researcher who coined the term – believes a biomimetic approach is one that favours ecological
performance research and metrics over shape making.
Through an examination of existing biomimetic technologies. It is apparent that there are three levels
of mimicry; the organism, behaviour and ecosystem. The organism level refers to a specific organism
like a plant or animal and may involve mimicking part of or the whole organism. The second level
refers to mimicking behaviour, and may include translating an aspect of how an organism behaves,
or relates to a larger context. The third level is the mimicking of whole ecosystems and the common
principles that allow them to successfully function
Then these three levels consist of form, material, manufacturing technology, process. Within each of
these levels, a further five possible dimensions to the mimicry exist. Within each of these levels, a
further five possible dimensions to the mimicry exist. The design may be biomimetic for example in
terms of what it looks like (form), what it is made out of (material), how it is made (construction),
how it works (process) or what it is able to do (function).
There is a strong temptation to assume that biomimetics is merely a matter of copying a structural
idea that is found in nature. However, this overlooks the process of structural design which is much
more than creating a certain structural to transfer and adapt the structures, material behaviour and
methodologies to bio-inspired technical structures, the geometry model and the material parameters
need to be scaled up and adapted to applications in building constructions in a further step.form.
Biologically Inspired Design (BID) sometimes shortened in “bio-inspired design”, “bioinspiration”
and “biodesign” is at least as old as the oldest biomorphic cave paintings, which date back to 40,000
YBP. Bio-inspired technical solutions are the elucidation of movement patterns and of actuation
principles and their interplay with the structural set-up of the mechanism because geometrical
characteristics and material parameters are inseparably linked and similarly affect the motion
behavior of the compliant mechanism.
In the context of bionics and biomimetics, the "evolution" and "adaptation" of traditional
architectures is most interesting. By analyzing biomimicry in general terms with natural methods and
inspired by these processes taking design. In this context, earthen beehive dome forms of houses in
Harran today "inspired by nature", which is widely used in all fields of as the first area where
learning/adaptation and/or application technique is implemented can be named. The importance of
Traditional and Bio-Inspired architecture of Harran earthen beehive dome as a source of innovation
is inadequately identified and used.
The case study on the adaptation of the traditional architecture on the Urfa Harran house. Beehives
will present an approach to identify architectural qualities for further application.