EBBT: Overview

Source

Maibritt's paper An ecosystem based biomimetic theory for a regenerative built environment (Pedersen Zari, M., & Storey, J. B., 2007, presented at the Lisbon Sustainable Building Conference 07, Lisbon, Portugal)

"seeks to contextualise the various approaches to biomimicry and provides an integrated set of 
principles  that could form the basis for an ecosystem based design theory. This would enable 
practitioners  to reach beyond sustainability to a regenerative design practice where the built 
environment  becomes a vital component in the integration with and regeneration of natural 
ecosystems  as the wider human habitat."

Ecosystem Principles

The six ecosystem principles have been broken down into factors and applications on the following pages:

• EBBT: Sunlight
• EBBT: System Optimization
• EBBT: Local Context
• EBBT: Diversity
• EBBT: Life Enhancement
• EBBT: Adaption and Evolution

The next step will be to build a concept map, looking for linkages, overlaps and gaps between the various factors and applications.

Concept Map

A concept map has been uploaded to the IHMC Public Cmaps (2) server. Users who have installed the Cmap client (Linux, Mac or Windows) can find the concept map from the Patterns from Nature folder. Anyone can read the Cmap, but authentication is required to update it.

A web version of the concept map is publicly available. Additional information for each node can be viewed by clicking on the page icon at the bottom of the node, and then clicking on the individual links. This will take you to the appropriate page in the Patterns Wiki.