Explaining the principles of heat retention in plant tissues in biomimetic architecture based on TPM-based modeling; Case study: Hyrcanian forests of Gorgan

Throughout their evolutionary history, plants have acquired amazing resistance to different climatic conditions. Especially against very cold weather and freezing point. On the other hand, phase change from liquid to solid in standard building materials generally causes damage. Therefore, our goal and idea is to transfer some strategies and structural properties of resistant plants to building and construction materials. The case study of this research is the plants of "Iranian Hyrcanian Forest" and the TPM simulation method was used in the analysis of heat retention and thermal analysis. The findings of the research, while expressing the basic strategies and structural characteristics of plants resistant to cold in the Hyrkani forest, have shown that the customized modeling strategy since the plant tissues with a very regular arrangement of single cells and in Different sizes and shapes have been formed, they represent classified porous natural materials that can be used in architecture and building materials. These structural features are suitable for resistance against very cold weather, and these features have presented a continuous mechanical approach based on the theory of porous media, in other words, it helps to reproduce building materials made of multi-faceted and multi-phase materials. The preliminary simulations also show the influence of structural features in water transport in plant tissues and certainly in functional light materials such as Heplex bitons.