Integration of Biological and Crystallographic Concepts In Biophilic Architecture: An Experimental Study Using Grasshopper

This experiment aims to fulfill one of the main strategies of biophilic architecture: the analogy of natural forms in architecture through form-geometry. This is since biophilic architecture lacks a method to address this strategy. Using Grasshopper as the main tool, the goal is to create a graphical algorithm that combines common concepts in biological growth such as allometric and morpho elastic growth, as well as grain boundaries, which are determinants in the growth of most crystals. These are related through morphogenesis concepts like chreode and other common ideas: autopoiesis, reversibility, order, and hierarchy. These concepts are developed from a conceptual architectural program to integrate into the architectural pillars of "function and structure." The main variables are biological growth, crystallography and parametricism. With this method, a wide variation in geometries with generative qualities has been obtained, completely enclosed with a congruent volume and area.