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This paper presents a novel compliant geo-structural systems bio-inspired by awns on grass seeds for increasing anchor capacity while minimizing material usage. A compliant deployable structure is here defined as a system that reacts to global displacements by continued elastic shape change and awns are slender flexible structures rigidly connected to the exterior of an anchor. When the anchor is loaded in tension, the awns react off the soil mass and deploy outwards from the pile shaft, enabling space-saving measures for transportation. This paper creates a structural pushover model to establish awn deformations and stress values, a scale model of the compliant system fabricated using additive manufacturing, geoplasticity numerical models of soil awn interaction, and a finite element model of an example application. This research elucidates the soil displacement mechanisms around the awns, the structural deformation of individual awns, and the enhancement of overall anchor capacity due to awn deployment. Key words: deployable structures, soil-structure interaction, anchors, limit equilibrium. Cet article presente un nouveau systeme geo-structurel conforme bio-inspire des aretes sur les graines d'herbe pour augmenter la capacite d'ancrage tout en minimisant l'utilisation de materiaux. Une structure deployable conforme est ici definie comme un systeme qui reagit aux deplacements globaux par un changement de forme elastique continu et les aretes sont des structures flexibles minces rigidement reliees a l'exterieur d'un ancrage. Lorsque l'ancrage est charge en tension, les aretes reagissent a la masse du sol et se deploient vers l'exterieur a partir du fut du pieux, permettant des mesures d'economie d'espace pour le transport. Cet article cree un modele de poussee structurale pour etablir des deformations et des valeurs de contraintes, un modele a l'echelle du systeme conforme realise a l'aide de la fabrication additive, des modeles numeriques de geo-plasticite de l'interaction sol-arete et un modele a elements finis d'un exemple d'application. Cette recherche elucide les mecanismes de deplacement du sol autour des aretes, la deformation structurelle des aretes individuelles et l'amelioration de la capacite d'ancrage globale due au deploiement des aretes. [Traduit par la Redaction] Mots-cles : structures deployables, interaction sol-structure, ancrages, equilibre limite., Introduction Resilient and sustainable geosystems for onshore and offshore applications will ideally make efficient use of materials, transportation logistics, and performance. To revolutionize this industry, new systems are needed that [...]