Growth is good when in accordance with nature’s own time-tested blueprint.

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By Nancy B. Solomon, AIA

Instructions

• Read the article "New Building Systems Mimic Nature and Return to a Biocentric Approach to Design"
• Complete the questions below, then fill in your answers .
• Fill out and submit the AIA/CES education reporting form in the magazine or print the form to receive one AIA learning unit.

Questions:

LU: 1 HS: 1

1. To be good at the “technofix,” architects are applying technologies that do all except which?
a. deplete fewer precious resources
b. deplete more precious resources
c. generate less toxicity
d. threaten fewer habitats

2. Nature’s ecosystems have spent how long building efficient, complex, adaptive, resilient systems?
a. 1 billion years
b. 2.5 billion years
c. 3.8 billion years
d. 4.3 billion years

3. The local data a master builder needed for a building to be part of its place included all except which?
a. sewage treatment systems
b. climate conditions
c. available materials and labor
d. economic conditions

4. Design that goes beyond sustainable is called which?
a. ecological
b. regenerative
c. biological
d. natural

5. Permaculture designers strive for systems that reap the greatest benefits with the least amount of which?
a. expense and time
b. time and materials
c. time and effort
d. effort and resources

6. Biophilia is a study of which?
a. human obsession with living things
b. human fear of plants
c. human attraction to living things
d. human avoidance of plants

7. Specific building elements that figure prominently in biophilic architecture include which?
a. organic forms
b. views of nature and indoor greenery
c. spatial and visual diversity
d. artificial lighting and ventilation

8. The process of imitating nature to solve human quandaries is known as which?
a. biophilia
b. biomimicry
c. permaculture
d. regenerative design

9. The study of natural systems will trigger all of these benefits in building and product design except which?
a. resource efficiency
b. spatial diversity
c. benign environment
d. aesthetic satisfaction

10. Most products that claim to be recyclable are actually which?
a. cycled to a lower-quality product
b. cycled to a higher-quality product
c. cycled to an extended-life product
d. cycled to a reusable product

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