Architecture Inspired by Nature

PART 1: Learning from Natural Structures: the Basis for a Bionic Approach.- Chapter 1: Bio-Inspired Light Structural Systems: Micro-components of Nature.- Chapter 2: Bionics and the Future of Tall Building Design.- Chapter 3: FREI OTTO: LIGHT STRUCTURES INSPIRED BY NATURE EXPERIMENTS WITH PHYSICAL SELF-FORMING PROCESSES: SOAP SOLUTIONS, VISCOUS FLUIDS, BRANCHING STRUCTURES AND FUNICULAR FORMS.- Chapter 4: Categories of Natural Principles and their Adaptation to Bionic Design.- Chapter 5: The Bionic Paradigm of Light in Architecture and Design. From the Vision of Animals to Architectural Conception.- Part 2: Establishing the Tools: Parametric and Biodigital Architectural Design.- Chapter 6: Generative Bio-digital Architecture & Design.- Chapter 7: Bionic Architecture and the Cyborg Culture.- Chapter 8: The Potential of the Architectural Forms Derived from the Conoid.- Chapter 9: The Challenge of Next Generation Machine Learning Algorithms for Architecture Design and Living Environment.- Part 3: Studying Scales in Territory: Bionics and Landscape.- Chapter 10: Landscape as Process - A Crossdisciplinary Integrated Approach.- Chapter 11: Disruptive Biotop: Interstitial Space of Encounter between Architecture and the City.- Chapter 12: Life on Earth. Reflections in Moments of Crisis.- Chapter 13: Evolutionary Biophilic Concerns in the Landscape and the Relationship with the Future Society of Consciousness.- Chapter 14: Nature - a Structural Element of Future Human Settlements? Biophilic City Approaches - Today's Priority: Transition from Design to Urban Planning and Policy-making.- Chapter 15: Bionic Criteria for Sustainable Labelling of Buildings.- Part 4: Researching on Materials: from Macro to

Maria Rosa Cervera Sardá is Ph D. architect, Professor and former Dean of the School of Architecture of the University of Alcalá and Current director of the Master's Degree in Advanced Architecture and City Projects. She is the author of writings and books on architecture, among which we highlight: "Bionics, Biomimetics and Architecture" (2019); "Space and Time in Architectural Composition" (2018); Recycling Mumbai. Re-imagining the slum" (2012). "Madrid, Recycled City" (2011), "Iron in 19th century Madrid architecture" (2006). A regular speaker in professional and academic circles, she has given lectures in Spain, China, India, USA, Bolivia, Peru, El Salvador, Venezuela, Romania, Italy, etc. As an architect, Rosa Cervera has received several awards -the "Antonio Maura" award, the COAM award, the "Transfer of Knowledge" award- and has won several international architecture competitions. Rosa Cervera is a pioneer in the research of Bionics, Biomimetics and the application of biological structures to innovative and efficient architecture and urban design. A direct result of these studies is the Self-Sustainable Vertical Garden City, Bionic Tower. 

Elena-Codina Dusoiu is a Ph.D. architect and professor within the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism from Bucharest, Romania. Her main fields of research are: rehabilitation and conversion of buildings (published books: The Dynamics of the Sacred Space. The Influence of Function, 3 Breweries and their Destiny, Ion Mincu Publishing House, 2009), vernacular architecture and ecology (organizer of 12 editions of Spanish-Romanian workshops on vernacular architecture 2006-2018), design and bionics (research studies realized within the IMUAU and the Alcalá University, 2021-22). She received various research grants and published about 100 scientific articles and 8 authored and co-authored books in the mentioned research fields. Outstanding activity as Visiting Professor in Spain,