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peter karpf voxia series in Nergiz Yigit’s thesis
Design applications of origami folding by Nergiz YİĞİT
Master of Industrial Design thesis reviews history of origami, illulstrates excellent applications in furnishing and design. Discusses technical approaches to metal bending extensively with some discussion of plywood, plastic and paper production methods. Concludes with authors own furnishing designs. 2004, İzmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. - Folding Techniques for Designers: From Sheet to Form
Excellent primer on geometric folding patterns, introduced in a way that encourages experimentation. - Paul Jackson, paper artist
The work of origami artist Paul Jackson. Includes packaging, sculpture, diagrams, links. - Jenny Underwood’s Structured Knitting Dissertation
RMIT Textile Design Professor Jenny Underwood researched the ways that knitting machines could create geometric forms. She covers the history of 3D knitting and then shows how to create 2D pattern motifs and 3D structures such as tubes, corners, protrusions and openings.
Videos on Origami
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chris palmer works with light in “Between the Folds”
BETWEEN THE FOLDS | Origami and Paper Art documentary
Remarkable origami experts merging art and science reveal their passions in this hour-long documentary that was shown on Independent Lens of PBS. Includes expert sculptors, geometry mavens, a MacArthur award winner as well as educators who inspire others. - LeKlint – Håndværket
Beautiful video shows the poetic process of creating lamps with folded shades at the Danish “Le Klint” workshop. Excels at showing how the thin paper or plastic shades are folded into shape, how metal and wood support structures are constructed. The craftspeople show how the resulting forms are moldable and resilient, so that it is disappointing to see them in their final static positions. - Fast Scale Prototyping for Folded Millirobots – YouTube
Folded plate mini-robots are prototyped with a polymer film laminated between two sheets of posterboard which is then lasercut on two sides to yield a hinged origami structure. - Deployable Biomimetic Structures by Diana Eng
Shows how an flower’s spiral folding helps it unfurl as the blossom’s petals grow at ~1:36. Discussed in application to fashion.
Kinetic Facades
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al bahr towers, abu dhabi
Cooling buildings in Abu Dhabi’s heat — CNN – YouTube
Kinetic sun-shading screens for Al Bahr Towers in Abu Dhabi by Aedas architects and Arup engineering are inspired by traditional mashrabiyas and origami. - soma kinetic facade — operation
Kinetic facade of One Ocean thematic pavillion at the Yeosu Korean Expo 2012, designed by Soma Architects and Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering. - Flectofin video in German
Illustrates biomimetic design with physical models that flex in 3D through the bending or tension of specific members ~ 2 minutes in. Shows the development of the Flectofin kinetic shading device. Features Stuttgart professors Jan Knippers and Julian Lienhard. Start at 2:00 , then see the larger prototype and simulation at 7:00 See a full paper at Bioinspir Biomim. 2011 Dec;6(4):045001. - Flectofin : a biologically inspired shading device
Through the study of a bird-of-paradise folding mechanism, a new kinetic shade using fabric was devised. This brochure explains the inspiration for the design, the structure, materials and movement of the product whose development team was lead by Julien Lienhard. It also illustrates a related Expo 2012 building in Korea designed by Knippers Helbig using buckling to create pockets for light. Winner of a 2011 Techtextil innovation award. See other projects http://www.itke.uni-stuttgart.de - Folded metal kiosks by Make open like a giant paper fan
Make Architects created kiosks that resemble origami boxes. The roll-front window has a skin of piano-hinged lightweight metal panels supported by heavier rotating frames. Images show the final result along with process and detail images. - ICD Stuttgart’s HygroScope: Meterosensitive Morphology – YouTube
Pavilion with kinetic openings created from wood veneer curling with humidity. Project Created by the Institute for Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart, led by Achim Menges and Transsolar Clmate Engineering. Shows the fiber extension tests, robotic construction. - Doris Kim Sung’s Metal that Breathes
Shading structures by Doris Kim Sung of USC Architecture that use thermal bi-metals to create kinetic structures.
Architectural shading – fixed
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Kuwait University College of Education under construction.
Kuwait University College of Education — RAFT Architects & Perkins & Will
Fixed folded plane facade is tuned to minimize heat gain and maximize usable natural light. The facade wraps an expressive form whose perimeter communicates a split mass. Anthony Fieldman lead architect. More about the process in Ajia Aksimija’s Sustainable Facades: Design Methods for High-Performance Building Envelopes book, 2013.
Digital Techniques
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David Huffman’s folding (Demaine, Demaine & Koschitz
Curved Folding
This is a place where we can work together towards an open CAD standard, initially based on a quad-mesh geometry, for representing and modelling curved folding geometries…and show what we have crafted in paper, modelled in CAD and then fabricated. Join us!!! The site was set up by Gregory Epps, founder of RoboFold, as a way to create a common network for anyone involved in folding, CAD and fabrication. - Hyoung-Gul Kook’s Architectural Geometry Components blog
Prof. Hyoung-Gul (HG) Kook’s blog reveals the Grasshopper code behind origami tessellations. Elegant forms and clean display of brief how-to behind the images. The work started from Columbia as purely virtual and has moved into interesting physical installation and architectural applications. - Kangaroo – Grasshopper
Kangaroo’s live physics engine by Daniel Piker simulates gravity’s effects on structures. See also the KingKong project to simulate folding.
