Tridel FORM Building

In February 2020, Biomimicry Frontiers put the finishing touches on a beloved project by installing the final piece of art at Tridel’s Form Building in the heart of Toronto. Biomimicry was a part of the design concept from the very beginning. In collaboration with OCAD students, we reimagined the FORM building using our Design Fiction methodology. As part of this process, students created various designs ranging from an air-filtering building facade inspired by the lungless salamander and the sea sponge to heat loss detection and response system inspired by the human blood vessel and wood frogs.As the project progressed, so did our biomimetic development strategy that integrated Biomimicry-inspired Technologies into the apartment complex. This included: 🌲 Carbon Cure concrete which, like a forest, stores captured carbon into the building 🕷Ornilux windows which reduce bird collisions by emulating the strategy of orb weaver spider webs The project was recently completed with a living wall art piece. Moss filled hexagons curated on the wall follow the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13), a pattern that is ubiquitous in nature.