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Assignment SMT03: BIO-MIMICRY

material environment function

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

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Assignment SMT03: Biomimicry

1. find a bio-system (plant, species, etc.) on asknature.org that deals in whatever function, process or structure with the environment DESERT. Please each student one topic and a different one. > 2. analyze how it works: in a minimum of 3 diagrams showing >shape, form, design, structure >mechanism, function, materials >process of how it works 3. establish a concept of what you as urbanist/architect would like to do with it. 4. apply your findings to concepts for systems applied in urbanism and/ or architecture.
Weighting: 20% single work Submission: Wednesday 06.03.2012 @ 11am stick printed sheets onto a wall in your studio. arrange neatly.

thank you
Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

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Ahmed Amri

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

Smart Materials & Technologies | Assignment 3

Ahmed AlAmri | 2007-0016

Mechanisim

Kinetic Energy

Potential Energy

Wallaby

Structure
Muscle Bone

Tendon elastic Fibrous Structure

Concept

Tendon tensed

Tendon relaxed

5 - 10 mm distence

Process
Tendon relaxed

Kinetic Energy

Electric Energy
Potential Energy

Kin e Ene tic rgy

En
Tendon Stretched

erg

Recovered Energy (Kinetic energy)

yr ele

Electric Energy Use

ase

Kin e Ene tic rgy

Potential Energy

Energy storage
Comparison

Stretched

Relaxed

Example
Pavegens

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Fouz Al Busaidi

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

Oriental Hornet Shape

Main Light absorbers

Smart Materials and Technology Fouz Al Busaidi (2009-0019)

Function

Oriental Hornet Light to Electricity

Electricity

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Oriental Hornet Solar City

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Oriental Hornet Solar Skin

Skin facade containing the yellow pigment

Pigment: xanthopterin (generates electricity) Slanted to absorb max solar radiation

Supplies electricity

Smart Materials and Technology Fouz Al Busaidi (2009-0019)

Process
How an oriental hornets exoskeleton converts light into electricity which activates the hornet:

Oriental Hornet Light to Electricity

energy- electricity produced is stored in the body and used up

Photons Transfer of electrons Electrons Pigment: xanthopterin (generates electricity) Yellow cuticle : P-type (i.e. electron acceptors ) Absorb solar radiation and transforms it into electricity Exoskeletons: Organic semiconductor

Brown cuticle : N type (i.e. electron donors) Traps the light and transfers it to the yellow cuticle

Photovoltaic cell
grooves absorb the light

Photons Electrons Negative contact

splits the light into diverging beams the grooves transfer the electrons to the yellow pigment pigment generates electricity and is used up by the hornet

n-silicon p-silicon Holes

Current ow direction

Positive contact

Electron ow

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Contribution by

Khadija Al Mandhari

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

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Nasser Al Sayegh

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

Urban scale Wind react to the shape

Applying leaver concept to the city

* wind direction

Ventilate the inner parts by direct the wind

* Assuming that the main wind direction is from south

Nasser Al-Sayegh 2008-0096

Concept Using Humaditiy to control temperature How to apply it in our environment Desert ?
*layer 1 *layer 1

wind ow

Summer noon : light re ected + wind ow

* layer 1 Adjustable tilting surface used as sunlight re ecters * layer 2 Wet fabric

light

Summer evening : no light + wind ow Winter morning : sunlight + wind ow

Sunlight re ectors

Winter nights : No wind ow + Warming up interior

Hercules beetle
color due to humidity

Low humidity

High humidity

light

color re ecting

How it control humidity?

Exterior cover layer

Adjustable width strings Strings width Interior layer

Humidity

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Contribution by

Nushrat Jahan Rima Alam

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

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Contribution by

Rania Baig

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

The Thorny Devil

Applying Concept

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Ricky Vinayachandran

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

Linanthus pungens

Day Time

Evening Time
Ricky Vinayachandran 2008-0006

Shape
Spreads Open

Long Thin Leaf

Function
Slow Evaporation

Wilting E ect

Proccess

Low Water Pressure High Water Pressure

Ricky Vinayachandran 2008-0006

Concept: Light sensitive facade

Shape

Tinned Shape Memory Polymer Thin Long Plates

Function

Light-Induced Shape Change Original Shape

Deformed Shape

Proccess

Concentrated Bonds

Loose Bonds

Ricky Vinayachandran 2008-0006

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Contribution by

Rola Al Harthy

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

Smart Materials and Technology Assignment 3

Shape Structure Design

Rula AL-Harthy 2008-0048

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Light Energy

Upper epidermis
Palisade
Containing chlorophyll & chloroplast

Water vessel

Spongy mesophyll

Lower epidermis

H2O

Stoma Co2

Process Metabolism Connection

O2 = water vapor
Rula AL-Harthy 2008-0048 Harthy 2008-0048

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Water vessel

Rula AL-Harthy 2008-0048

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Function Mechanics Material

Rula AL-Harthy 2008-0048

Concept
Magnified Section of a leaf Magnified Section of a Dye sanitized solar panel

Sunlight

Sunlight
TCO Platinum or glass

Dye
TiO2 TCO

O2 Co2
Light reaction = the photo part Chloroplast responsible to absorbed light Flat and large Surface area maximum amount of sunlight Produce O2 , H2O = Energy Light reaction = the electrodes sensitized Dye. Dye + Titanium responsible to absorbed light Flat and large Surface area maximum amount of sunlight Produce = Energy

Concept

Functions
Sunlight

Process
Dye sanitized solar panel of a window

TCO Platinum Dye +Ti2O Trapped sun heat

=
Sunlight
Magnified Section of a Dye sanitized solar panel

Energy

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Contribution by

Rowa El Zain

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

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Rumana Othmani

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

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Contribution by

Talal Al Haremi

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)

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Contribution by

Taleed Rose

Daniela A. Ottmann _ Assistant Professor _ ASD Architecture and Sustainable Design _ UPAD Department for Urban Planning and Architectural Design _German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech)