"The team’s goal was to use biomimicry-inspired design to reduce energy use in a building designed for Iran’s harsh desert climate. The team needed to use passive design strategies to protect building occupants from intense sunlight and provide both moisture and ventilation. Their Bio-Arch design, inspired by the desert snail, minimizes the surface area exposed to solar radiation with curved surfaces, shades nested levels of activity underneath an outer shell, and creates buffer zones that are tempered with natural ventilation."
http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/project-gallery/bio-arch-desert-architecture-inspired-desert-snail
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Mitigation (of climate change)
A human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.
Adaptation
In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects, in order to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual
climate and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate.
Resilience
The ability of a system and its component parts to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the effects of a hazardous event in a timely and efficient manner, including through ensuring the preservation,
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Mitigation (of climate change)
A human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases.
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In human systems, the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects, in order to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. In natural systems, the process of adjustment to actual
climate and its effects; human intervention may facilitate adjustment to expected climate.
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