Woven Worlds: Architects Reimagine Shelter in Organic Forms
Biomimicry meets building science in a new wave of structural design.
A nest is not a house. A web is not a wall. But a new generation of architects is asking what buildings can learn from structures that evolved over millions of years.
Learning from Nature
The projects profiled here — a bamboo pavilion in Bali, a mycelium vault in Rotterdam, a tension-fabric canopy in Senegal — each translate a biological strategy into a structural system. None of them look like nature. All of them behave like it.