Mother Nature inspires awesome architecture
Posted by staff / January 30, 2011
After centuries of conquering nature, builders of the future are looking to the Mother as muse to answer environmental dilemmas and calls for greener design. The results are clever, stunning and in most cases, unlike anything gracing today’s skylines.
Ultima Tower
When Eugene Tsui dreams, he dreams big. The two-mile-high tower is meant to imitate a tree in the way it uses “technology that draws water from the ‘roots’ to the pinnacle,” creating its own energy-efficient ecosystem…and the perfect hitching post for your spacecraft.
Qatar cactus office building
The new digs for the Minister of Municipal Affairs & Agriculture of Qatar not only looks like a cactus but deals with the broiling heat in a way that mimics its inspiration’s method of retaining water. The designers from Aesthetics Architects put in sun shades that open and close to control light and air flow into the building.
Mangrove spiral towers
Design team Chimera explains the natural inspiration of their unique skyscraper design as follows:
“The mangrove plant and its collective the mangal, provide examples of social associative principles as well as structural capacities and hybrid responses to environmental and contextual conditions.”
With that said, I wouldn’t want to be the person who had to clean the windows.
Full story at Web Ecoist.
Mimics african architecture, quite delightful!