BIOMIMETIC APPROACH FOR ADAPTIVE, RESPONSIVE AND KINETIC BUILDING FACADES: A BIBLIOMETRIC REVIEW OF EMERGING TRENDS

Abstract

Nature serves as a data source for many disciplines, offering strategies such as sensitivity, adaptability, robustness, high resilience, lightness, energy efficiency, self-healing and self-improvement. The characteristics within this data pool provide alternatives for solving similar problems in different disciplines. Terms such as biomimicry, bio-informed, bio-inspired, nature-inspired, used to denote the process of deriving solutions from natural strategies, involve learning and adapting from nature. It is recognized as a significant tool not only in fields such as engineering, materials and robotics but also in the advancement of architectural knowledge. In recent years, research has prominently focused on adaptive, adaptive and kinetic biomimetic facade designs for energy efficiency. Within the scope of this study, publications on adaptive, adaptive and kinetic biomimetic facades were systematically reviewed and the state of the literature and contributions to the field were highlighted using bibliometric methods. In this context, a search was conducted in the Scopus database using predefined keywords to access relevant studies, evaluating aspects such as publication years, types of publications, countries of publication, Scopus category of the article, journal names and frequently used keywords. Subsequently, a content analysis was conducted for the most cited studies. As a result, it was observed that biomimetic adaptive/sensitive/kinetic facade designs in architecture, particularly in the context of energy efficiency, contribute to innovative studies, addressing aspects such as thermoregulation, natural ventilation and the use of renewable materials. © 2024, Jomard Publishing. All rights reserved.