Trip to the Boserup Skov

 

We made a really nice trip with our Outdoor Biology Class. We went to “Boserup Skov” to walk around in the nature and watch natural phenomena. It was quite interesting to see how much live is in a forest and how much you can observe while you are walking with your eyes open.

12% of Denmark is a forest, so there is a lot of space where you can have a walk and enjoy the nature. The aim of Denmarks government is to have 20% of forest areas in the whole country. That means that you have the chance to have more natural life in Denmark soon.

We spend about 3 hours in the nature and saw a lot of nice things.

Mushrooms...  

 

Did you know why mushrooms are growing at a tree? The function they have is to composting!

The largest Part of an mushroom is in the ground. The roots grow very large under the earth. The largest organism in the world is a mushroom, by the way.

You cannot eat all the mushrooms you find. You should be really carefully of those with lamella!

For example this Ametist you shouldn´t eat!

 

Nicolai and the beech

Of course we saw a lot of trees. The beech is the most growing tree in Denmark and a shadow tree. That means, that it is difficult for the sunlight to go through.

If you measure the light-intensity on the top of the crown, it will be 100 %. And on the bottom of the beech there is only a light-intensity of 2%. That is the reason why there are less plants growing under this tree. For instants the oak is a light tree. You will find a lot of bushes and plants under an oak.

We also saw a place called a sump in the forest.

That came into existence during the ice age. There was a big part of ice left for a long time. And now you can find a lot of different plants there, for instants fern and reed. Reed has something special in the inside: it is a material you can use as a wick for a candle.

Of course, we also saw some animals. For instants we saw an edible snail. Nicolai told us that those animals are male and female in one. So as we all know, snails are very slow. When they are lucky, they find a partner and of course they have to breed. So because of their ambisexuality they will always have succsess!

We also saw this pretty larve.

   

We also experienced that algae are not only in the water! We found two kinds of these plants:

One time next to the fjord ...

... and the other time on a bucked tree.

Walking next to the water was very nice.

Another highlight was meeting a school class in the middle of the forest.

Architecture inspired by nature

Feli & Alina

FASHION & BIOLOGY

CARBON

Carbon is the chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6.
There are several allotropes of carbon of wich the best known are graphite, diamond, and amorphous carbon.

Eye liner is a cosmetic used to define the eyes.

LEOPARD

The leopard is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion and jaguar

GOLD

Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals

STEEL

steel is one of the mos recycled materials in the world
it is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content. 

SHEEP'S WOOL

Simple examples regarding biomimicry

Agenda for "Outdoor Biology" 2010

To day we are starting up exploring how nature has inspired man, both in architecture, technical applications, fashion and much more. This blog will be used as an portfolio - in three steps. First the planning part, then secondly a field trip where we will be gathering inspiration and collecting materials for use at the third time, where we will be constructing, modeling or creating something, not yet known....Here is a good example below: 

The top picture shows a burdock, that gave inspiration to a swiss engineer in 1948, while he was cleaning his dog from burrs, an inspiration to create what we know to day as velcro .....

Nicolai