Abstract
The Universe around us stands as a proof of the greatness of God. Everything around us, small or huge, tiny or great, all confirms the fact that this universe has a creator who initiated it and kept running and maintaining it. No one can ignore such fact. Allah has created all aspects of beauty and perfection. Despite the vast technological and scientific development that humanity witness these days, yet we still discover new indications of God's creativity and miraculous formations every day. This fact was the source of inspiration for architectur- al designers in coming up with new inventions and creations that help regeneration and natural environmental sustainability. “Biomimic- ry” is certainly one of these approaches that consider nature as its inspiration towards a different –hopefully, a better - future for humani- ty. This research sheds some light on a vision that took place in fall2014 at the department of architecture, Effat University, KSA. A senior studio (studio7) was targeted to explore the potential of weaving the “Biomimicry” approach within the syllabus of that studio. This initiative had been proposed by the team supervising this studio as an exploratory one before the call from “Makkah Techno-valley Company (MTV)” to design a Research Center (RIM) was launched. The RIM project aspires to play a major role in offering a support- ive environment for youth in Saudi Arabia enhancing their abilities and developing their skills to experience achievement within “MTV” main campus. The study aimed at exploring the possibilities of implementing such an approach within a GCC country with its entire unique educational context.
Highlights
Introduction comprehensive architectural educationGlobal trends to create unified and integrated entities depending on the integration and interaction of parts and components is rap- idly increasing in the recent decades, to be capable of interaction and coexistence amid the growing global challenges
Architectural design studio is located in the heart of the architectural education system and represents a melting pot where all the knowledge and skills learned by architecture students merge
The integration between design studio applications and deliverables of other courses becomes an essential goal of the architectural education comprehensive system that relies on a set two main axes: first, a vertical axis depends on the sequential gradient structure of design studios in successive levels in integrated system
Summary
Global trends to create unified and integrated entities depending on the integration and interaction of parts and components is rap- idly increasing in the recent decades, to be capable of interaction and coexistence amid the growing global challenges. The team put forward the idea of including the application of a modern architectural trends studied by students in the course of architectural theories in the design studio as one of the intended learning outcomes of the design studio. The application of this experience started by SPRING2014 semester. The research will start by highlighting the main features of Biomimic- ry and introducing the methodology of application within the design studio with a review of some models of the students’ prod- ucts with the most important application remarks
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