PORTLAND-Place Based Solutions: Applying Biomimicry principles to Living Building Challenge Projects

[prana]

The Portland Living Building Collaborative and Biomimicry Oregon are teaming up to host what should be a pretty fabulous event Thursday (April 18) from 5:30-7:00pm. Food and beer will be provided, and we’ll be joined remotely by LBC Collaboratives in Juneau, Alaska and San Francisco.

PLACE BASED SOLUTIONS: APPLYING BIOMIMICRY PRINCIPLES TO LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE PROJECTS
Join the Portland Branch Living Building Collaborative and Biomimicry Oregon for a multi-disciplinary and interactive event. We will learn about biomimicry thinking, the Genius of Place process, and how to apply those processes to solve local problems with local solutions. The Genius of Place was an eight-month research project, focused on uncovering how we can learn from the organisms of the Pacific Northwest to enhance and improve design, engineering, construction, and policy in our region. Learn how they used seven local organisms, processes, and ecosystems to explore and develop design principles that can be applied to multiple challenges involving stormwater management. Representatives from Biomimicry Oregon, Matt Piccone and Nicole Isle, will present the findings from their research, followed by an interactive design session where attendees will gain first-hand experience in applying biomimicry research to a design problem.

Matt Piccone is currently a Job Captain at SERA architects with experience working on the Edith Green – Wendell Wyatt Federal Building and the OUS/OHSU Collaborative Life Sciences Building & OHSU Skourtes Tower. He is involved with the Sustainable Action Committee, and he is currently looking for ways to integrate natural functions, systems, and behavior into the built environment through Biophilia, Biomimicry, and Bio-utilization. He has been involved with Biomimicry Oregon for the past two years and was a core team member for their Genius of Place pilot grant project.

Nicole Isle is the Chief Sustainability Strategist at Glumac. As a watershed ecologist and urban planner, Nicole helps project teams understand how biological knowledge can accelerate sustainability goals in the built environment. She is trained as a Biologist at the Design Table through the Biomimicry Guild and helped to launch the Oregon Biomimicry Network. In 2012, the Network won a Bullitt Foundation grant to help implement Biomimicry projects in the Pacific Northwest.
Food and beverages will be provided.

Please register in advance if you plan to attend (we want to make sure we have enough beer for everyone ).

[DetroitPlanner]

Seriously??? Biomimcry????

This sounds like a fancy word for Human Ecology, and I thought Human Ecology was fancy!

[prana]

Biomimicry isn't a new concept. It's simply looking at nature's models and imitating those natural designs or processes where applicable. It's multi-disciplinary bringing together architects, engineers, scientists, and innovators. I think lately there has been an additional influence with the rising need for resiliency in our city designs.

I understand that for those that are municipal planners often buried in codes that these may be foreign concepts. But there is a growing movement in the private sector to push sustainable designs well beyond LEED, into Living Building Challenge levels of sustainability and even beyond.

a pretty good resource: http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/a...iomimicry.html