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Day rendering of the Acropora pavilion.

Acropora Pavilion

Date 2020-10-01
Authors Daniel Locatelli, Ryan Daley, Tzu-Ying Chen, Sergio Rosas, Anand Shah, Benjamin Hagemann, Max Mischke
Place ITECH - University of Stuttgart

Each animal has its unique morphology, anatomy, and behavior. Most of these characteristics are highly evolved and fulfill functions with almost perfection. Biomimetics is a strategy that investigates nature's solutions for our problems.
This research started exploring static structures. This includes any kind of skeletons, shells, and other softer yet static structures.

Further research dealt with general principles found in stony corals in a big range of species and also in all scales, from the most simple structure found in corals, the polyp, going through the coral itself, and finally the reefs.

As a result, this study abstracted the relationship between different polyps forming a single coral. This modularity is then used for an architectural biomimetic application, the Acropora pavilion.

Cake Urchins - Clypeaster ranganus, University of Tübingen
Cake Urchins - Clypeaster ranganus, University of Tübingen
Microscopy of the coral Acropora with a magnitude of 150x.
Microscopy of the coral Acropora with a magnitude of 150x.
Microscopy of the coral Acropora with a magnitude of 175x.
Microscopy of the coral Acropora with a magnitude of 175x.
Computational simulation of a coral growth using a differential growth algorithm in a mesh surface.
Computational simulation of a coral growth using a differential growth algorithm in a mesh surface.
Pavilion exploration using a quad pattern on a pre-defined surface.
Pavilion exploration using a quad pattern on a pre-defined surface.
Pavilion exploration using a Voronoi pattern on a pre-defined surface.
Pavilion exploration using a Voronoi pattern on a pre-defined surface.
Pavilion exploration using a triangular pattern on a pre-defined surface.
Pavilion exploration using a triangular pattern on a pre-defined surface.
Structure based on a coral section.
Structure based on a coral section.
Rendering of the Acropora pavilion.
Rendering of the Acropora pavilion.

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