A Springer Nature Research Communities article describes a plant-inspired adaptive façade using hygromorphic, biobased 4D-printed materials that change shape in response to weather. Inspired by pine cone scales, the system was installed on the liv MatS Biomimetic Shell in Freiburg as an autonomous shading system that does not require electrical operating energy.
Why it matters: this is unusually practical for biomimetic architecture because it moved beyond simulation into a real façade installation, with hundreds of bespoke shading elements fabricated and deployed on an actual building.
