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As a highly interdisciplinary field, architecture is being influenced by many subjects of natural and social sciences. While many subject hold an indisputable effect on architecture, biological sciences is currently dominating the era. It is totally comprehensible for architects to observe, learn and copycat the natural phenomena on behalf of a better living. This biological framework evolved and shifted towards different approaches, especially with the advancements in the computer technologies and as a cause of this a better understanding of the nature's production methods. Especially, for the last 10 years, as many literature published and many studies done, this subject becomes more popular amongst architects. This paper aims to understand these design methods under the name of biomimicry and biomimetic architecture by reviewing the literature and research work done and examines these approaches under three categories like; biomorphological design, biomimetic design and biodesign as pointing out the differences between each approaches..
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All praise to Allah the almighty, Who alone made this small objective accomplished. My deep appreciation goes to P.Dr. Bahaa Eldin Bakry for his guidance, encouragement, and the countless hours of attention he devoted. I deeply appreciate his modesty, parenthood and his believing in my abilities more than I really do. I would like to thank P.Dr. Ahmed Fekry for his generous participation in supervision and guidance. I am thankful to P.Dr. Mohamed Medhat Dorra for his precious time, and my deep gratitude to P.Dr. Mohsen Tawfik for his effort in the review of this work and for his generous encouragement.
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