Exploring the Place of Nature Strategies in Architecture Design Process Towards Nature and Built Environment Symbiosis

There are sustainability strategies in nature, which are the key to the survival and stability of components and ecosystems. Not only nature is a source of inspiration, and innovative ideas in solving human problems also is a powerful mentor for designing the built environment in symbiosis with the substrate ecology. Due to nature strategies’ complexities and their interdisciplinary character, the architectural design process needs to be known by nature-inspired framing. With the wide scale of biological information and the lack of recognition of applying nature strategies, a model is needed to use biological strategies in the architectural design process. This research aimed to explore the nature-strategies effective components in the architectural design process, to create a connection between the biological and architectural domains. Using the nature strategies to transfer, and apply them in the architectural domain, as well as how the nature strategies affect and transfer in the field of architecture have been explored by studying the nature-inspired design strategies and the projects and documentation of the experts in this field through theoretical Analysis, focus groups, and also logical argumentation and case study. The analysis of qualitative data was done with Fisher's exact test, and SPSS software was used. The main question of the research has been raised as follows: What are the effective components of nature-inspired strategies and their place in the architectural design process? The research findings show that discovering and explaining the effective nature-inspired design components in the design process creates new paths to reaching innovative designs.