What mirrored ants, vivid blue butterflies and Monstera house plants can teach us about designing buildings

  • Written by: Aysu Kuru, Lecturer in Architecture and Construction, University of Sydney
What mirrored ants, vivid blue butterflies and Monstera house plants can teach us about designing buildingsColeen Rivas/Unsplash

Almost all buildings today are built using similar conventional technologies and manufacturing and construction processes. These processes use a lot of energy and produce huge carbon emissions.

This is hardly sustainable. Perhaps the only way to truly construct sustainable buildings is by connecting them with nature, not...

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