Duration: 2012-2015
Funders: Human Frontiers Science Program

This groundbreaking project gathered experts from four continents specialising in biology, engineering, applied mathematics, architecture, and robotics to explore the potential of termite mounds as models for human construction. 

Publications

• Termite-inspired metamaterials for flow-active building envelopes
  Andréen, D. & Soar, R., 2023 May 26, In: Frontiers in Materials. 10
• Solar-powered ventilation of African termite mounds
  Ocko, S. A., King, H., Andreen, D., Bardunias, P., Turner, J. S., Soar, R. & Mahadevan, L., 2017 Sept 15, In: Journal of Experimental Biology. 220, 18, p. 3260-3269 10 p.
• Emergent Structures Assembled by Large Swarms of Simple Robots
  Andréen, D., Jenning, P., Napp, N. & Petersen, K., 2016, ACADIA // 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines : Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) . Ann Arbor, p. 54-61 8 p. (ACADIA).
• The Role of Additive Manufacturing and Physiomimetic Computational Design for Digital Construction
  Soar, R. & Andreen, D., 2012 Mar 1, In: Architectural Design. 82, 2, p. 126-135