With the frequency of disasters growing, as hurricanes, fires and floods become more common and people increasingly move into areas affected by them, architects and engineers are continuing to explore the practice of biomimicry in an attempt to find solutions in the natural world to problems of resilience. Taking resilience to incorporate the characteristics of rebound, robustness, extension, and adaptability, this search through nature has revealed many materials and designs that offer promise, with a notable example being the structure of bamboo influencing the China World Trade Center by providing robustness against earthquakes, according to an article in Arch Daily.
Similarly, designers have examined the shapes of trees, bones, nests, and shells to see how to gain the maximum amounts of energy from the minimum amounts of materials. Modularity is also a point of interest, according to Arch Daily, allowing flexibility in usage and rapid changing of structures to respond to changes in conditions. Even the response of various species to wildfires has drawn attention, both to examine how certain plants and animals survive, and to extract those properties to building construction or the design of filters or other protective devices that can help people address more hostile environments.
Source:
https://www.archdaily.com/1009289/the-role-of-biomimicry-in-disaster-resilient-architecture
