Civil Engineering and Architecture 10(2): 734-751, 2022 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.100228 A Biomimetic Approach as a Sustainably Architectural Design in Designing Resort Hotels: A Study Case in the Tourism Beach of Tanjung Karang, Regency of Donggala, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Irdinal Arief 1 , Harifuddin Thahir 2,* 1 Department of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Engineering, State University of Tadulako, Sulawesi Tengah 94148, Indonesia 2 Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, State University of Tadulako, Sulawesi Tengah 94148, Indonesia Received December 1, 2021; Revised January 5, 2022; Accepted March 1, 2022 Cite This Paper in the following Citation Styles (a): [1] Irdinal Arief, Harifuddin Thahir , "A Biomimetic Approach as a Sustainably Architectural Design in Designing Resort Hotels: A Study Case in the Tourism Beach of Tanjung Karang, Regency of Donggala, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 734 - 751, 2022. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.100228. (b): Irdinal Arief, Harifuddin Thahir (2022). A Biomimetic Approach as a Sustainably Architectural Design in Designing Resort Hotels: A Study Case in the Tourism Beach of Tanjung Karang, Regency of Donggala, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 10(2), 734 - 751. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2022.100228. Copyright©2022 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract The Province of Central Sulawesi has an interestingly attractive potency of tourism beaches for tourists, such as white-sand beach, sunset spots, tropical beach forest, and the beauty of an underwater landscape, mainly coral reefs located in Tanjung Karang, the Regency of Donggala. The typographic preservation of this tourism destination is mostly still well-maintained, but some abandoned areas are also found due to tourists’ or inhabitants’ exploitation. It can be seen from buildings’ layout exceeding the beach border, garbage stacking in the coastal area up to the sea, careless clear-water consumption, and unmanaged and uncontrolled waste management system. Based on these circumstances, a strategy to maintain existing natural preservation is highly required by the utilization of environmentally friendly energy. The sustainable strategy integrates hotel resort areas with its surroundings, viewed from biomimetic architecture, and contains climate, biology, architecture, and technology, collectively. The research, then, discusses how to respond to the natural condition of Tanjung Karang beach, by considering its surroundings in terms of adaptation to nature and evolution [1], and also utilizes regional climate-supported energy, optimally, such as the solar energy and heat, wind, and surroundings-sourced water. Further, the adaptation of a coastal-traditional architecture was also performed by duplicating (mimetic), a transformation was relevantly conducted. In this research, a biomimetic approach was not comprehensively done, but it was limited to a simple simulation process, consisting of site management, site analysis via environment interaction, the concept of the hotel resorts design considering traditional principles such as building style, the mass form of buildings, and a schematic and simulated management of partly renewable energy. Keywords Biomimetic Architecture, Resort-Hotels, Adaptation and Evolution, Partly Energy Management 1. Introduction Humans affect ecosystems and evolutionary processes at great rates and in multiple ways [2]. Despite traditional approaches in the study of ecology where systems tended to be studied as unaffected and separate from human influence, it may be as [3] suggest, impossible to look at ecosystems as separate from human systems. Despite the fact that there may not be any ecosystems that are truly unaffected by humans, and that humans are inherently part