I read some stories about robotic design taking more inspiration from animals. Nasa or one of the groups who design for them, I forget now, was drsigning an exploration robot based on how a snake moves. Also, I just recently read about a drone designed on how flying squirrels sort of just slam into a tree and grab onto it. The idea for that one was flying a drone into a telephone pole to inspect power lines/transformers, or setting up wildlife cameras.
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Nature inspired engineering, in a botanical garden. Disconcerting the first time you walk it, it ripples and moves - like the snake skeleton it was inspired by.
https://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/30/boomslang-walkway-kirstenbosch-national-botanical-garden-mark-thomas-henry-fagan/
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OK, this has taken my brain in a new direction @DianaStuder ! There is a brilliant architect here named Javier Senosiain who built a glorious house (I think for his family?) in CDMX that unfortunately closed to the public during the pandemic and remains closed but is worth looking up, called Casa Orgánica that is almost one with the ground. (This is the same architect behind Parque Quetzalcóatl, which is also wild and wonderful.)
edit to add: here is another of his, Casa Nautilus
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