Origami Pavilion
Photo credit Adeyinka Adewoyin
Author Adeyinka Adewoyin
This project aims to explore the ways in which a shelter can adapt to users’ need, to offer an optimal, enjoyable experience that fosters a sense of playfulness. The objectives of the proposal include creating a shelter that promotes both indoor and outdoor activities, and designing an interactive shelter that both the interior and exterior surfaces offer interaction with the users.
The proposal seeks to achieve this by investigating the potential of employing the deployable folding pattern found in origami system to create a dynamic shelter that can alter its form. The investigation entails examining how various parameters can impact the shape of the shelter’s form by converting a 2D tessellation pattern into a 3D configuration.
A series of steps were undertaken to accomplish these goals. The first step investigates the dynamic properties of origami geometries by creating paper models to compare various elementary folding configurations. This comparison aims to gain a better understanding of the overall movement exhibited by these structures at a global scale.
In the second stage, Parametric modelling tools are utilized to create diverse kinetic origami modules by optimizing various parameters that affect the form.
