Their feet are designed so that it never reaches 0°C and the cold blood never affects its core body temperature!
How is that possible? Life design is beautiful: At the top of the legs the cold blood channels (returning from the feet) will cross pass the warm blood channels (going to the feet) and they exchange their temperatures. So that the "up coming blood" is always warm and the "down going blood" is always cold. In this way penguins get a very low heat loss through their skin. The low temperature on their feet is then much close to the environment temperature preventing it from ice burn as well.
Concepts like this one are in fact a common practice in Man creations:
Although we see this as systems attached to our design. What if your design contains already this concept just as Life do. Being aware and understanding its potential may provide clues for more efficiency and natural climate control.
Helder Neves
in "Architecture cannot solve everything!"
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As a matter of fact, humans can't definitely create nothing new or special but they have the amazing ability to understand their environment and then to copy it !
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