234) Mick Pearce: Using biomimicry for more bioregionally appropriate architectural design
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kaméa chayne
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🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Mick Pearce is a renowned architect who uses biomimicry to develop buildings that have low maintenance, low capital and running costs, and renewable energy systems. One of his most notable projects is the Eastgate Mall in Harare, Zimbabwe, which he drew inspiration from how termite mounds are able to passively cool and regulate their internal temperatures in spite of being in hot regions.
In this podcast episode, Mick sheds light on how the field of architecture has been largely taking on an approach similar to industrial agriculture; how we can learn from termite mounds to design passively thermal regulated buildings; and more.
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| 1:34.0 | I mean, what I'm going to say in the end is that we're absolutely appalled at the way |
| 1:38.8 | the architectural profession is continuing. And I've been at it for 30 years. |
| 1:45.6 | And they're still churning out buildings which have form-driven, pretty forms, that have |
| 1:51.3 | nothing to do with, they don't know where they are. |
| 1:54.2 | I mean, every building looks as though it could be placed anywhere. |
| 2:01.0 | That was Mick Pierce, a renowned architect who uses biomimicry to design and develop |
| 2:07.4 | buildings that have low maintenance, low capital and running costs and renewable energy systems. |
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