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Nature does not optimise — nature changes

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What is the Architect Doing in the Jungle? Biornametics

Part of the book series: Edition Angewandte ((EDITION))

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Evolutionary processes and a combination of chemical and physical phenomena lead to specific geometric organizations in nature. In fact nature strives to reduce the amount of material necessary to create specific spatial configurations that we have come to recognize as shapes or forms, which have developed over enormous time periods.

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  1. SPAN, Vienna, Austria

    Matias del Campo (architect) & Sandra Manninger (architect)

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  1. Matias del Campo
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  1. LIQUIFER Systems Group GmbH, Vienna, Austria

    Barbara Imhof

  2. transarch — Office for Biomimetics and Transdisciplinary Architecture, Vienna, Austria

    Petra Gruber

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del Campo, M., Manninger, S. (2013). Nature does not optimise — nature changes. In: Imhof, B., Gruber, P. (eds) What is the Architect Doing in the Jungle? Biornametics. Edition Angewandte. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1529-9_8

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