This paper presents a concept of folding as a form-generator for a structural system that
allows the ability to deploy large spanning structures. The presented approach studies the …

Membrane packaging has been the main feature of the earliest prototypes of transformable
architecture. Similar concepts of spatial transformation are encountered in the origami art …

Advances in design tools and material engineering open new possibilities for architectural
structures that may respond better to the demands of the increasing density of development …

Various models and methods have been developed for design and analysis of rigid origami.
Rigid origami is a transformable polyhedron which consists of rigid flat panels connected by …

This paper presents a research study on a geometry and mechanism of origami for
generating a deployable tessellation structure that will be tested as a large span structural …

Form-finding processes are an integral part of structural design. Because of their limitations,
the classic approaches to finding a form–such as hanging models and the soap-film analogy …

A novel and efficient approach to the design of foldable architectural structures based on
rigid Origami is here proposed to obtain lightweight constructions. This kind of structures are …

The increased complexity of geometrical shapes in architecture asks for elaborated
fabrication methods, which have to be adapted on a case-to-case basis. Kinetic modular …

This paper presents ongoing research related to the self-organized folding of fiber cement
and textile concrete sheet elements, with gravity and friction as guiding concept. Textile …

One of the more computationally demanding tasks in a process of synthesizing “from
scratch” origami crease patterns designed for a given purpose involve a simulation …