Environmental prioritization of Bionic architecture criteria in the design and planning of human settlements Using Vikor method

Bionics is a branch in planning and design to achieve creativity through the use of natural key models and comparison between living nature and the built environment, which leads to the creation of desirable qualities. Most of the uses of the subject of bionic design are public spaces and less of this science has been used in the design of human settlements. Over time, the impact of bionics can be seen in the field of performance and especially the process, which shows the need to pay attention to the characteristics of living systems instead of just form and structure in bionic design. This research is descriptive-analytical and its purpose is to use multi-criteria decision-making methods (Vicor method) in prioritizing the environmental criteria of bionic architecture in human settlements. Based on this, first the criteria of bionic architecture in the design and planning of human settlements were extracted from authentic articles, and then 13 main environmental criteria were extracted from researches by expert experts and prepared for weighting. The questionnaire was sent to 25 experts, of which 19 experts completed and sent the questionnaire. Scoring was done in the form of a questionnaire with scales from 1 to 9 (very little to very much). In the present study, experts were asked to give weight to all 13 criteria according to the four main indicators of sustainable architecture, i.e. consumption management, design with nature, human design and environmental scale. The results showed that material and energy efficiency, optimization and evolution are the three best criteria of bionic architecture from an environmental point of view in the design and planning of human settlements.