Biomimicry: Hoax or Genius?

Thanks for another interesting video.
Sorry, but I did pick up on one mispronunciation though. You might check out how to pronounce the word Chitin.

Thank you for leading me to a new thought process, and research. Much ❤️

So bad ass!

Is it practical to scale nature’s designs? Functionally: maybe. Practically: no. There’s a reason why these structures in nature don’t exist on land and 2-7 stories tall.

ok who tf named those 2 robots

Biomimicry as a topic of study is something that gets both way too much glowing praise and way too little coverage for its potential.

There is exactly one facet of the topic that you missed, and while completely forgivable, it's actually the single most important aspect of the entire issue.

Use Case.

I haven't seen your DUNE video yet, (I've been binge watching all your videos in semi-random order all day since finding your channel earlier), but I can only assume that in that video you rectify a lot of what was missed here.

Put simply:
"Biomimicry only works if you use the examples the way they're meant to be used"

If we're to gain increased knowledge of how to build buildings, it's not going to be from studying animals, but from studying what those animals build.

Houses aren't supposed to handle fall damage.

Walls aren't supposed to regrow limbs or have bloodflow.

The Gherkin doesn't work because air produces very different forces than water.

Sure, it works temporarily, but the flowrates and turbulences of air are much more violent and chaotic than the usual push and pull of undersea currents.

Spiderwebs, termite mounds, anthills, burrows, bird nests, wasp nests, etc.

The biomimicked part is only good for humans the way it's good for its source in nature.

The hyperbolic paraboloid is amazing for storing energy and resisting large, temporary fluctuations in load.

But for static loads, it's not as good.

Lobster chitin is amazing for handling the forces of biological life for exactly the reasons that it is AWFUL for building static structures.

The density gradients in chitin allow it to retain a lightweight structure while still handling exceptionally forceful impacts and tensions in combat or travel. The problem with chitin is that while it has exceptional qualities, it has to be supported metabolically to retain those qualities in the long term.

Leaves, while exciting and beautiful, are not protective structures.

The living leaf tower is a terrible idea not because of its design, but because leaves are energy-gathering structures meant to be supported by the real structure of the tree.

Using a leaf as a wall is like using a tree trunk as a solar panel: backwards.

Ants use leaves as walls because they're tiny.

To find solutions in nature, we need to look for things that actually fit the bill.

The lobster biomimetic pavilion is beautiful, but it lacks the softer internal support structure that makes lobster chitin strong, leaving it much more vulnerable and fragile than a more complete mimicry would be.

Ngl that transition to the ad was mad smooth 💀

Something that often gets lost in conversations about sustainability and environmentalism is that beyond all the ethical reasons, it's just logical to work with the environment instead of trying to fight against it for our own designs. The latter requires a lot of unnecessary resources and maintenance because it runs counter to the natural laws of how environments function. The difference between traditional construction and the advent of modern attempts at biomimicary seems to merely be time. As more focus is put in the biomimicary direction, it should become more common practice. As stated in the video, we have ~4 billion years of testing that's already occurred on the designs present around us. The challenge is implementing them appropriately given the problem we're trying to solve. Love these videos, thanks for making them.

AG1 for Antonio Gaudi chapter 1

When building engineers worked with entomologists, They discovered that termites in Africa have a unique and efficient way of cooling the termite mound.

that shrimps life is pretty scary if you ask me..imagine buying an apartment and getting trapped in it with your wife...one day she dies and you have to live with the 🧟‍♀

If we work with nature, nature will work with us. There is lot of giving back to do, and that will hurt, but giving back is better than extinction.

would love your take on bridges

Chitin = Kite-in

What about simply having architecture combined with trees, like tree houses? There are also Hobbit holes from the Lord of the Rings, which people have recreated. Many fantasy films, anime, and art depict combining nature and architecture, so I'd like to see a video or few videos based on that theme.

Evolution nature. How about god creation This is what god create for human to enjoy you human show us what you create

Damn you are so pretty❤️😅💓🥰😍

Yo that ad transition is smoooooooth

Thumb: "This building can take emotional damage." Great?, I guess..

while i'm still definietley scared for our future and think these designs need to be accompanied with new more sustainable forms of community that don't rely on higher powers like states and corporations and i think these kinds of technologies being cooped into our current systems is a great danger to they're revolutionary potential this did give quite a bit of solar punk hope and inspiration!

this video is interesting... u did a great job. keep it up 💪👏👏👏👏

What an effective and distinctive method of construction. I hope to see the homes of the future built like this 🥸

Suggest using these biomechanical technologies in the only true earth friendly and energy efficient structures, hobbit houses / earth house, temperature efficient, storm proof and so on

Agent Smith Defined Mankind !

your closing argument resembles what ‘scavengers reign’ showed us in a very bizarre, yet captivating, way. thank you for this video & all the research the team put into it.

This video was waaaayyyyyvover my head . I loved it but the concepts were insane to understand

can it, uh, reproduce?
not a hoax, not genius, big waste of resources

Awesome videos

would it be considered biomimicry to copy the design of ant colony/anthills?

I love all ur vids and the amount of research u put in them keep the good work up

They stole a lot of ideas from Frank Loyd Wright 🇺🇸

I remember seeing guadi’s work when visiting Spain when I was in like grade 3? And for a kid in grade 3, the fact that gaudi’s work had such a impact on that trip, I remember some of the littlest things like the voice of the narrator talking in the headphones, or the inspiration of different rooms, and even guadi’s name was incredible, because generally I would imagine my 3rd grader self not being interested in places I visited that was just looking at stuff. So the fact that I not only rembarre but loved his work was amazing. I know it’s not super related but i kinda wanted to tell it

wow

it reminded me of Octavia Butler's books, especially Down. There the aliens live on a ship that is a living being, even the vehicles, everything is alive. It's a great read.

ive been following you for awhile now, cant believe i missed this

Not hoax or genius, just art. Form and function are a feedback loop, and function usually emerges circumstantially.

Wow!

When the house is kranken

... can't wait until she gets to the point - clicked away

It's a shame they just gave up on the gherkin. 😢

It seems silly to base designs on nature, but then change the scale. If you believe nature arrived to the design after thousands of years, then that is the design and scale that works. If you believe The Creator created it, then, again, it has been created within certain parameters.
Depending on size and scale, seek the design in nature that works at that scale, or, you will realise that you are the student trying to improve upon a perfect design...

And as for the shrimps as the end. If you didn't select the right partner, how truly horrifying! 🤣

get those biopolymer guys together w the strandbeast work that be awsome. cud have biopeeds zoom about eating rubbish following winds n pressures n stuff. no need for eelectricity or ai

about AG1... i feel nothing at all, im waek as everytime, and sick as everytime... its totaly bullshit... it just huge advertisement all over social...

SO AMAZING

thank you so much for the video! i really like the idea of getting closer to our origins, but i'm not sure about it's possibility. it seems that there's too much capitalistic interests and no one would care about any global changes until the very last moment ;(

The way to meet the challenge of CC is to merge technology, nature and knowledge into a single strategy. Architecture would fall into the technology strategy, or the natural one.