摘要:The present paper represents a research on a possible didactic method for architecture students regarding the study of the transposition of natural role models into the built environment and the generation of alternative forms in architecture. The objectives of this study are the acknowledgement of the formal diversity offered by nature, enunciation of possible methods of formal analysis of the natural examples, and eventually the transformation of those characteristics into parameters capable of meeting the architectural requirements. The materialization of this proposed theoretical approach is achieved through the exercise entitled “Ecotecture” conducted at the Faculty of Architecture in Timisoara.