Origami and kirigami have inspired a multidisciplinary team of engineers and architects to apply these ancient paper-folding art techniques to geometric principles and thereby create living ...

How Origami Is Revolutionizing Industrial Design Scientists and engineers are finding practical applications for the Japanese art form in space, medicine, robotics, architecture and more ...

An architecture student has devised a clever way to build strong, stable vaulted floors using far less concrete and steel than usual, with a novel formwork design inspired by origami.

Origami Architecture: ... Make modeled the design in 3ds Max and MicroStation, then unwrapped the facade to a flat piece of paper to build a physical model.

While Architects never stopped their imagination and never gave up on experimenting with design concepts, inspirations or materials, over the years, origami inspired structures got played well ...

Want more room? Not a problem. Using drones and inflatable balloon-type devices, a new kind of transformable architecture could create buildings that morph to meet our needs.

Origami is a new residential development by Waechter Architecture in Portland’s Piedmont neighborhood. As an urban gesture, the project occupies a full city block with twelve wood-framed townhouses.

The design is a hybrid of two well-established Japanese construction methods used in art, architecture, and science: origami and kirigami. ... The design itself combines the flat-packed, ...

Origami, the art of folding paper, also touches our everyday lives through fashion, architecture, technology By Robin Miller [email protected] Sep 7, 2015 ...