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biomimicry: emulating the oak tree

Biomimicry comes from bios, life, and mimesis, to imitate. This project uses the oak tree as a model, measure, and mentor to derive sustainable architecture. Biomimicry is examined as a holistic methodology with six steps:  identify, interpret, discover, abstract, emulate, and evaluate. Using this methodology, the project investigates the oak tree’s closed-loop systems: water, oxygen, and food. The synergies that exist within these systems are emulated to develop a complex green infrastructure consisting of building and landscape systems.
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