Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration
-
Upload
maclay-architects -
Category
Environment
-
view
561 -
download
2
description
Transcript of Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration
![Page 1: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Nature’s Inspiration: Biomimicry and Biophilia
as a Powerful Business Tool
Bill Maclay, AIA, LEED AP, Maclay Architects
A presentation given at VBSR’s 24th Annual Spring Conference
Examples of Biophilic Workplaces in Vermont
Derivative by Maclay Architects from Fasaxc / CC BY-SA 3.0
![Page 2: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
View the talk on YouTube
http://youtu.be/a4ChILGL89w
Derivative by Maclay Architects from Fasaxc / CC BY-SA 3.0
![Page 3: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Nature’s Inspiration Biomimicry and Biophilia as a Powerful Business Tool
VBSR’s 24th Annual Spring Conference
Stephen Kellert – Introduction and Essential Principles
Bill Maclay – Vermont biophilic workplace examples
Sarah-Lee Terrat –Integration of natural themes
Michael Dupee – Applying biomimicry in businesses
May 14th, 2014
![Page 4: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
The Workplace as an Ecosystem?
Bill Maclay, AIA, LEED AP
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. -Winston Churchill
Photo by Jim Westphalen
Photo by Carolyn Bates, www.carolynbates.com
Photo by Jim Westphalen
![Page 5: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
We are not walking ON this earth, We are EARTH that walks.
Derivative by Maclay Architects from Andreas Lederer / CC BY 2.0
![Page 6: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
What is Work? How might work evolve?
Public Domain
Pulic Domain
Charles R. Knight / Public Domain
Tropenmuseum of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) / CC BY-SA 3.0
Viktor Vasnetsov / Public Domain
![Page 7: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Are we inspired by the 20th century workspace?
Public Domain Public Domain
![Page 8: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
What might “earth walking” design look like? Survival / Health / Beauty
Public domain
Photo by Pascal Reusch / CC-BY-SA-3.0
Photo by Miguel Vieira / CC BY 2.0
Photo by Martin St-Amant / CC-BY-SA-3.0
Photo by Leonidtsvetkov / CC BY-SA 2.5
Image by Clark Wissler / Public Domain
image by Dmitry Avdeev / CC BY-SA 3.0
Adapted from diagram by the Pearce Partnership and The Urgency of Change by Eugene Tsui
![Page 9: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Humans “Walking in” Nature (Biophilia, Biomimicry, Living Buildings)
Safety Survival /Health Instinct
Belonging Community Emotion
Learning Adaptation / Evolution Reason
![Page 10: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Photo by John Fowler / CC BY-SA 2.0
Survival/ Health/ Beauty
Pedro Szekely / CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo by Steve Cadman / CC BY-SA 2.0
Timothy A. Price and Nichole I CC BY-SA 3.0
Public Domain
Photo modified by Edfu6 from photo by Rémih / CC BY-SA 3.0
![Page 11: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Belonging and Community
Photo by John Atherton / CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo by Pelayo2 / CC BY-SA 3.0
Photo by Canoe Island French Camp / CC BY-SA 3.0
![Page 12: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Learning, Adaptation, and Evolution
Image by digitalbob8 / CC BY 2.0
Public Domain
Photo by Gary Peeples USFWS / CC BY 2.0
![Page 13: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Design Within Nature • Whole Systems
• Organisms / ecosystems
• Parts
• Senses (external)
• Organs (internal)
• Details
• Cells, face, dimension
![Page 14: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
The Background for the Workplace as an organism in an ecosystem
Moods
Safety
Coordination of Action
Beauty
Inspiration
Belonging
Caring
Learning Innovation
![Page 15: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Workplace by Design: Mapping the High-Performance Workspace by Franklin Becker and Fritz Steele
Whole Systems/ Organism / Ecosystems
Organizational Ecology
![Page 16: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
HEART
NEIGHBORHOODS
COMMON MEETING/PROJECT SPACE
PRIVATE MEETING
SPACE street street
PRIVATE MEETING
SPACE
The Seeds of Design: An emotional and community core
![Page 17: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
The evolution of an ecosystem
![Page 18: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
The pieces and places
![Page 19: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Spaces for Dialogue and Interaction
![Page 20: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Eating as a Place for Community
![Page 21: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Niches for quiet or more reflective conversation
![Page 22: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
NRG Systems
The heart connecting to the entire workplace
![Page 23: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
View towards fireplace & hearth from café
Warehouse Connection
Central Heart
Street & Office Connection
![Page 24: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Extension into landscape and landscape to building
![Page 25: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Entry connections through to landscape
Connection to light and views
![Page 26: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
VEIC – A community ecosystem
![Page 27: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Places of Exchange
![Page 28: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Meeting and work connected to light and views
![Page 29: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Resource Systems Group
Light, gathering, and food at the center
![Page 30: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Nature in details
![Page 31: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Light, air, and connection to nature
![Page 32: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Transparent ecological treatment of waste connecting to the cycles of nature
![Page 33: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Nature and gathering at the “beach”
![Page 34: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Nature engaging the inside with places to sit
![Page 35: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Nature themes in the floor and use of wood
![Page 36: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Reuse of natural materials
![Page 37: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Treating water with care
![Page 38: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Library, Light and Wind Goddess
![Page 39: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Earth, Air, and Water theme in the floor
![Page 40: Biomimicry and biophilia as a powerful business tool nature's inspiration](https://reader034.fdocuments.us/reader034/viewer/2022052621/557c6f38d8b42a855d8b4ed6/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Additional Resources: for more information visit our site
http://www.maclayarchitects.com
and check out our up-coming book
http://www.maclayarchitects.com/net-
zero-book
Maclay Architects on…..
Google+ - https://plus.google.com/+MaclayArchitects/posts
LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/company/maclay-architects
Houzz - http://www.houzz.com/pro/maclayarchitects
Our Blog - http://www.maclayarchitects.com/net-zero-energy