Multilevel triz contradiction in biomimetics

Over the last years there has been an increment of papers regarding both TRIZ and biomimicry. The greatest efforts were produced to introduce TRIZ fundamentals, like technical contradictions or function modeling as tools for knowledge transfer of biological organisms, in order to solve technical problems. Until this days, there is still much work to do about the multilevel modeling of natural systems, which is a crucial task for better describing biologist’s knowledge and also useful for a faster identification of physical and technical contradictions. This paper proposes a new conceptual design framework, in order to describe high complexity systems as the natural ones, taking into account multiple scale levels, the hierarchical organization of the elements, stimuli, physical effects and the topologies used for organizing the element’s structure itself. An exemplary case study about orb web is provided to show a physical contradictions between macro level and micro level.