BIOMIMCRY PARK

Biomimicry offers enormous potential to transform our landscapes, buildings, products and systems.   For every problem that we currently face - whether it is generating energy, finding clean water,  designing out waste, manufacturing benign materials, or designing a Biomimicry Discovery Park there will be precedents within nature that we can study.  Our challenge was to stay true to this sentiment and produce a viable, beautify and functional project that ‘talks to’  the values espoused in Biomimicry.

The design proposal illustrates an understanding of landscape as being inclusive of architecture and the natural processes that shape our world and not separate from them.  It also demonstrates through an approach that  takes its cues from biomimicry philosophy, that the landscape is to be viewed not only as a physical entity but also as a way of life, as a powerful, evocative concept reflecting the values and ambitions of biomimicry. 

The design team comprises: Newtown Landscape Architects; GWA Studio; Christ Wilkinson Architects Gamelihle Sibanea (Biomimcry Engeering); Yani Peer (International Biomimcry Consultant); Mathew Rosmarin (Local Biomimcry Consultant).