Design and construction principles in nature and architecture

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Knippers, Jan ^a,b,c,d   Speck, Thomas ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b Competence Network Biomimetics ^*  (Germany)

^c Bionics Competence Network (BIOKON EV)   (Germany)

^d Advanced Engineering Stuttgart   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; BUILDING MATERIAL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION;

ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS;

EID: 84857602544     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/7/1/015002     Document Type: Article

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