Biomimicry has been proposed as an important tool to reach key skills for the new century. It has taken its place as an essential resource for critical and creative thinking in design disciplines. However, as emphasized in many studies, bio-informed research requires interdisciplinary collaboration and systematic knowledge transfer. This article answers the question: “How can architects—who have limited knowledge in biology—develop biomimetic ideas and transfer this knowledge to architectural designs?” This research’s hypothesis is that the “natural language approach,” which is frequently used in engineering disciplines, can also be a knowledge transfer tool for the architectural discipline. To test the hypothesis, research was conducted with a group of graduate students taking the “ARCH5661—Parametric Approach to Nature-Inspired Architectures” course in the Department of Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, in the fall semester of 2019. The results were evaluated based on term-long studies and feedback from the students. In light of the obtained data, this article proposes a method that can be used in architectural education and adapted to other design disciplines.

仿生学已被提议作为获得新世纪关键技能的重要工具。它已成为设计学科中批判性和创造性思维的重要资源。然而，正如许多研究所强调的那样，生物信息研究需要跨学科合作和系统的知识转移。本文回答了以下问题：“生物学知识有限的建筑师如何开发仿生思想并将这些知识转移到建筑设计中？” 这项研究的假设是，在工程学科中经常使用的“自然语言方法”也可以成为建筑学科的知识转移工具。为了检验假设，研究是在 2019 年秋季学期在土耳其安卡拉 Gazi 大学建筑系参加“ARCH5661——自然启发建筑的参数化方法”课程的一组研究生进行的。 结果根据学期进行评估- 长期的研究和学生的反馈。根据获得的数据，本文提出了一种可用于建筑教育并适用于其他设计学科的方法。