The Way Architecture Imitates Life, Biology Meets Geometry

Biology can be inspirational.  The spiral ramps in multistory parking garages, the way they are stacked and connecting parallel levels, are replications of helical structures found in a ubiquitous membrane structure in the cells of the body - Terasaki ramps in an organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), a network of membranes found throughout the cell and connected to and surrounding the cell nucleus. A team of researchers have described endoplasmic reticulum geometry using the language of theoretical physics in Physical Review Letters. read more

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