The biomimetic promise: natural solutions as concept generators for sustainable technology development in the construction sector (C01+)

• Subject Area: Construction Material Sciences, Chemistry, Building Physics ; Evolution and Systematics of Plants and Fungi
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 231064407

In the second funding period, the key objective will be extended from the “biomimetic promise” to the “biomimetic challenge” in terms of the transfer of biological success principles into bio-derived and sustainable developments. The focus will be shifted to the change of function in relation to the invested resources and to the relationship between multifunctionality and the provided resources. As an example, separation processes in biology will be studied and their potential will be analysed for serving as role models for the disintegration of technical compound materials into their components at the end of use allowing for reuse or improved recycling.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 141: Biological Design and Integrative Structures. Analysis, Simulation and Implementation in Architecture
• Applicant Institution: Universität Stuttgart
• Co-Applicant Institution: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik (IBP)
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Klaus Peter Sedlbauer, from 10/2014 until 6/2018; Dr. Olga Speck; Dr.-Ing. Bastian Wittstock, until 6/2014