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Arts & Communication Design application of foliage plants

Figure 4. Prince Felipe Science Museum. 6

Figure 3. The lotus lamp infuses both traditional craft and technology. 5

is either delicate or rough, soft or hard. The texture bionics of
foliage plants refers to the comprehensive use of leaf tissue,
color, texture, and structure for design. It incorporates
physical and visual elements to encourage the production of
material goods and spiritual ideas during interaction.
In modern times, engineers have drawn inspiration
from leaf texture to build a range of bionic structural
systems, such as applying the mesh texture in leaf veins
to the fan-shaped vault as a supporting structure in
architecture. The master of spatial structure, Santiago
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Calatrava, adopted the structure of intertwined leaf veins Figure 5. Pottery made by Hitomi Hosono and its texture detail. 7
for the Prince Felipe Science Museum designed for the City
of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. As illustrated in Figure 4, human-oriented functions. Ancient ancestors were able
he gives the building an orderly texture full of vitality. to utilize the function of plants for bionic design. Classic
Japanese ceramicist Hitomi Hosono specializes in examples include the Yellow Emperor being inspired to
incorporating the beauty and textural details of leaves into build the wheel after seeing a flying fleabane and Luban’s
her work. She uses ceramics to mimic the texture of plants, invention of a simpler saw for cutting wood inspired by
layering white leaves in relief on the pottery, giving nature sawtooth grass that scratched his arm.
a more profound and transcendent spiritual core. As There have been many cases where the functional bionics
shown in Figure 5, although the visitor can see the surface of foliage plants have been applied to design. For example,
of the ceramics, the lush, overlapping greenery inspires scientists mimicked the photosynthesis of leaves to create a
imagination and makes them wonder about the work’s solar battery that simulated the incomplete photosynthesizer
latent energy. of cyanobacteria to design a bionic photolysis water device
that can obtain a large amount of hydrogen. Scientific
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4.3. Functional bionics research has also found that the study of photosynthesis
Functional bionics of foliage plants mainly refers to the will provide a new way of developing medication for the
methodology of researching the functional principles extension of human life and the cure of ailments. 13
existing in leaves and then effectively applying them Similarly, modern people have also conducted bionic
in design, such as energy conversion and information studies on the functional aspects of the leaf surface. By
transfer. It promotes the innovation and development of observing the phenomenon of dumplings wrapped in
product function and material technology and creates the
conditions for designing products with convenient and
6 Photo reference: https://www.sohu.
com/a/618658886_347478 [Last accessed: 18 October 2023]
5 Photo reference: https://www.sohu. 7 Photo reference: http://www.333cn.com/
com/a/555711347_121124036) [Last accessed: 18 October shejizixun/202144/43495_432808.html) [Last accessed: 18
2023] October 2023]

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