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Atendendo à realidade e às preocupações sociais, económicas e ambientais
decorrentes nos dias de hoje, cabe aos designers adoptar práticas projectuais que atendam
aos desafios emergentes. A Natureza, como fonte de recursos inigualáveis e autónomos
pode fomentar a criatividade e a variedade de soluções eficientes e sustentáveis. O Design
biónico tem assim a função de estreitar a relação entre a Natureza e o domínio projectual.
Neste trabalho apresentam-se significados, bem como a origem e o caminho de
evolução e desta corrente e sugerem-se argumentos para reforçar a consideração da sua
importância para os designers. Através da análise comparativa de soluções de design
biónico e soluções convencionais para a implementação da mesma funcionalidade, procurase,
recorrendo a um conjunto de critérios definidos para o efeito, indagar sobre os ganhos
que podem ser alcançados com esta abordagem.
Num esforço de recolha de metodologias para apoiar a prossecução do design
biónico, analisaram-se cinco métodos de design biónico existentes face a cinco metas de
concepção consideradas representativas dos objectivos de alto nível almejados por quem
utiliza as abordagens biónicas ao design. Desta análise resultou a consideração da
necessidade de compatibilizar os sentidos de orientação opostos que podem ser
calcorreados (do problema para a solução e vice versa), de aumentar o apoio oferecido à
prossecução das cinco metas consideradas e oferecer apoio para a validação dos resultados.
Estas considerações resultaram na proposta de um novo método visando atender a todas
elas.
O método proposto foi aplicado, com vista à sua validação, resultando em dois
projectos que foram desenvolvidos percorrendo os itinerários consignados nas etapas do
mesmo. Deste modo no percurso orientado do problema para a solução, considerou-se e
levou-se a cabo o projecto de uma torre para CDs e DVDs biónica, que representa uma
inovação de paradigma para oferecer esta funcionalidade uma vez que se baseia na
inspiração recolhida a partir da observação da teia de aranha. No percurso orientado no
sentido inverso, da solução natural para o problema de aplicação, partindo-se de soluções
de optimização patentes em estruturas da natureza, nomeadamente árvores e esqueletos,
alcançou-se o projecto de um novo tipo de veículo a pedais para todo o terreno.
Given the reality, and the social, economic and environmental concerns of today, designers are expected to adopt project tactics that meet the emerging challenges. Nature as a source of unique and autonomous resources can foster creativity and a variety of effective and sustainable solutions. Bionic design is meant to narrow the relation between Nature and the project-oriented field. In this thesis, the origins and the path of evolution of this approach are presented with definitions given and arguments to strengthen the consideration of its importance for designers are suggested. Through comparative analysis of bionic and conventional design solutions to implement the same functionality, inquiry about the gains that can be achieved with this approach are sought using a set of criteria for this purpose. In an effort to collect methodologies to support the implementation of bionic five existing methods design were analyzed against their perceived support in achieving five design goals considered representative of the high level objectives sought by those using the bionic approaches to design. This analysis resulted in the consideration of the need to reconcile the opposing directions of orientation that can be trailed (from problem to solution and vice versa), to increase the support offered to the pursuit of five goals considered and offer support for the validation of results attained. These considerations resulted in proposing a new method that was intended to comply with all of them. The proposed method was applied, seeking its validation, resulting in two projects that were developed by traveling the routes contained in its steps. Thus in the path directed from the solution to the problem, a bionic tower for CDs and DVDs was designed, representing a paradigm innovation in offering this functionality, as it is based on inspiration gathered from the observation of the spider web. In the course travelled in the opposite direction, from the natural solution towards the problem application, starting from the optimized solutions portrayed by structures of nature, particularly trees and skeletons, a new type of all terrain pedal vehicle was drafted and designed.
Given the reality, and the social, economic and environmental concerns of today, designers are expected to adopt project tactics that meet the emerging challenges. Nature as a source of unique and autonomous resources can foster creativity and a variety of effective and sustainable solutions. Bionic design is meant to narrow the relation between Nature and the project-oriented field. In this thesis, the origins and the path of evolution of this approach are presented with definitions given and arguments to strengthen the consideration of its importance for designers are suggested. Through comparative analysis of bionic and conventional design solutions to implement the same functionality, inquiry about the gains that can be achieved with this approach are sought using a set of criteria for this purpose. In an effort to collect methodologies to support the implementation of bionic five existing methods design were analyzed against their perceived support in achieving five design goals considered representative of the high level objectives sought by those using the bionic approaches to design. This analysis resulted in the consideration of the need to reconcile the opposing directions of orientation that can be trailed (from problem to solution and vice versa), to increase the support offered to the pursuit of five goals considered and offer support for the validation of results attained. These considerations resulted in proposing a new method that was intended to comply with all of them. The proposed method was applied, seeking its validation, resulting in two projects that were developed by traveling the routes contained in its steps. Thus in the path directed from the solution to the problem, a bionic tower for CDs and DVDs was designed, representing a paradigm innovation in offering this functionality, as it is based on inspiration gathered from the observation of the spider web. In the course travelled in the opposite direction, from the natural solution towards the problem application, starting from the optimized solutions portrayed by structures of nature, particularly trees and skeletons, a new type of all terrain pedal vehicle was drafted and designed.
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Design biónico Design biónico - Metodologia do processo Design biónico - Sustentabilidade Design biónico - Criatividade Design biónico - Optimização estrutural Design industrial
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Universidade da Beira Interior