ENVIRONMENTAL SIMULATION IN LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURE'S DESIGN AS ONE OF SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES IN ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

Nature is one of the most important sources of inspiration and creativity for the human being in general, the architect and the interior designer in particular. The images of the forms of simulation and imitation of nature are countless, while the process of simulating nature is one of the most important strategies for sustainability in architecture and interior design processes with all its elements, and that through Achieving one of the following axes (formal treatment - functional treatment - technological treatment) or through the merging between them, as these three treatments are the most important products of simulating one of the elements of nature, as it is the result of the interaction of a group of forces with the organism whose behavior is simulated towards one of the external stimuli and influences Until its biological nature returns to balance, as is the case in the adaptation of plants to moisture and drought, for example. Through the research, strategies for simulating the environment will be studied through two basic stages: firstly, conducting biological research on the characteristics and behavior of a particular organism towards a stimulus, and second converting the results into a design that simulates the environment and interacts with it with the same behavior of the organism that has been studied biologically. The research aims to study the possibility of simulating nature and its imitation as one of the sustainability strategies through its applications on lightweight installations because of its effective and rapid role in eliminating many problems, the most important of which are the various environmental problems, which will be discussed through the research, where the research works on three axes The first: Sustainability The second: Biomimicry simulation of the following: Lightweight Structure. The merging of the three axes to overcome various environmental problems, and at the end of the study, a set of results related to different treatments and the importance of simulating nature were reached to reach the method by which sustainability can be combined Environmental and technological sustainability in architecture through light construction units, as well as the role of light construction units in solving the presented environmental problems through a design that mimics nature in terms of form and function.