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Abstract
Man nowadays face a serious threat which is the decay of nature resulting from their destroying habits. This forced architects to look for ways to protect our environment, control the decay of nature and strengthen the relationship between person and place. One of our important problems that threaten humans is the energy problem. Concern about the use of energy is increasing yearly to be used in many areas, whether cooking or operating electrical appliances and various machinery. In the 21st century electricity consumption is increasing because of the use of electricity of many buildings, so people must be aware of the importance of electricity. There are a lot of solutions and designs which are applied to overcome the increasing use of electricity. Architects have begun to deal with other fields to create living spaces with minimal impact on nature in terms of energy use to have an energy efficient buildings. Hence they sought to return to nature to create living buildings that adapt to it without playing with the equations of life created by Allah. One of the most important solutions is Biomimicry. Biomimicry is an applied science that derives inspiration for solutions to human problems through the study of natural design, systems and processes. Unfortunately, there is a misunderstanding of Biomimicry, thinking that it is about mimicking natural form or appearance. Therefore we cleared that there are two main approaches to design and one of them is used to define biomimicry and explains that it is about learning from nature and working closely to it. This thesis discusses the principles of Biomimicry, its approaches, potentials and considerations. Biomimicry is not only related to energy, but also to form and structural systems, and so on. This thesis also discusses Biomimicry as an environmental solution for efficient buildings, as well as giving some examples that use Biomimicry to save energy by how they mimic nature and how far they were successful. Also there will be guidelines to apply Biomimicry when we design a building to reduce the use of energy to have an efficient building using Biomimicry optimization approach.