الفهرس 
The Definitions of Biomimicry
Strategies of Lighting Regulation in NatureOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The aim of the present thesis is to show how the use of biomimetic façades can improve lighting quality, by providing a reliable methodology through six systematic stages, based on the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process, to get inspiration from nature.
Taking inspiration from nature can indeed help architects to improve their ideas; nature is the main source and the first teacher of inspiration in various fields. Biomimetics is one of the most important fields that provide a lot of potential for finding solutions to environmental requirements around the world.
The selection of role models from nature is a challenge facing architects. Processes, morphologies, and systems are all strategies that can be used for mimicking and can be implemented on various scales of results, such as materials, elements, buildings, and urban environments. In fact, many architects have delivered remarkable projects with the help of the digital revolution. Form and morphology are the most common features copied from natural systems to architecture. Many cases of successful biomimetic architecture that used nature as a source of form can be seen. However, those successes do not necessarily mean they successfully transferred the performance of living systems to the building behavior. They benefited from the simulation of biological behavior to create a more complex form, but that is not enough to improve building behavior efficiency. The priority of biomimicry in architectural design is to transfer some extraordinary adaptations that have evolved in natural organisms into systems of building behavior.
Considering this, the dissertation proposed a systematic design methodology and then abstract their strategies and mechanisms. It also followed a problem-based approach and seek solutions from nature to optimize the facades of office buildings to address daylight needs, where office buildings are one of the largest energy consumers in Egypt, and industrial lighting represents a large proportion of the total annual energy consumed. The visual comfort is improved by solving daylighting and glare simulation, which is performed in this thesis using Rhino software, algorithmic modeling by Grasshopper with Climate studio, and the Opossum plugin. The use of the proposed biomimetic approach in this study succeeded in maximizing daylighting performance. Optimum solutions which met the targeted criteria were defined.