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It's Not Rocket Science #2: Ventilation
• https://misfitsarchitecture.comInstead of actually growing out of the ground or landscape like plants, buildings are constructed from putting lots of building materials together and it takes a lot of people, resources and money to do that. We can conclude two things from this.A building that looks as it it's built out of lots of building materials will:
have more integrity than a building that, say, is trying to look like a rock or a tree or a cloud or a river and
will therefore cost less than an equivalent building encrusted with ornament or trying to look like something it's not.
As you would expect, misfits is totally against biomimicry in the sense of making buildings look like the result of natural processes like, say, this building does
However, misfits is all for the use or adaption of natural world processes if better performing buildings in the artificial world are going to be the result. Biomimicry is passive design, basically. Biomimicry is to building performance what 'organic' was/wasn't to building aesthetics.