Amphibious Biomimetic Experimental Institute Part 1 Project 2019 Sarah Asif Heriot Watt University - Dubai Campus | UAE An experimental incubator focused on assimilating the importance of creating a sustainable future through adaptive and generative solutions in response to forces of nature. The course evolved through a personal reflection of architecture through the years; being a reflection of the past, brought about the need for an institution that provides a platform for challenging ideas; forms that are generative, evolving and enduring, that can combat the ever-changing climatic challenges of today and the near future. For this institute, the architecture follows biomimicry. Ranging from micro organisms such as Algae, to Prairie dogs, Saharan silver ants to Namibian beetles; the institute closely mimics their functions to bring about efficient, adaptive features. The initial phase of the course allows students to understand the building itself. Students are then allowed to initiate their own projects, within groups of commonly oriented students, or with professional themselves, allowing them to leave the institute in the end with a number of projects generated over their years in the experimental university. The institute conceptualises the idea of an island that serves as a climatic analysis feed, through which groups of students travel to different zones across the world expanding their idea and building their solutions stronger for the future of architecture. Sarah Asif Tutor(s)