A good poem often seems to arrive with an air of perfect inevitability- so much so we often suspect our best lines of having already been written by someone else.

Don Paterson, “The Poem.”

inthenoosphere:

“As we think to create form we punctuate space, we cannot escape the trace – arching, bridging, folding, packing. There is rhythm as we fork or branch, each node another buried beat. As we fold, each ridge is a structure. As we pack things together in loose or tight fit, contacts vibrate. As the patterns grow nesting in the elements of architecture, the composition awakens harmony or sharp dissonance that recall safety or danger, stability or imminent collapse. Unbearable tensions or repeating compliances – deep structure is always felt. A large part of our survival is built out of such rhythms.”

— Cecil Balmond

lesmotsquejauraisaimeecrire:

Je passe mon temps à une activité dont personne ne voit l'utilité. C'est sans doute ce que l'on appelle une passion.

«Monsieur Origami», Jean-Marc Ceci, Gallimard, 2016, p. 77

inthenoosphere:

“The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations.”

— Steven Johnson

One can think of folding paper as reducing the possible options - from the infinite to a smaller number with each fold. But each new fold has possibilities too. Not only for that model, but beyond the single sheet of paper out in the next model and the next.

inthenoosphere:

“I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.”

— Richard Serra

Origami for space architecture promotes cross-disciplinary approaches and applications, providing state-of-the-art production and design methods. Habitats enhanced by such structures are temporal and alive as they are able to transform and redefine themselves in resonance with human and environmental factors.”


Anna Sitnikova

Lead author Dr Pooya Sareh, who led the research at Imperial’s Department of Aeronautics and now directs the Creative Design Engineering Lab at the University of Liverpool, said: “Using an origami-inspired protective layer, we have built a way to let miniature flying robots navigate in confined or cluttered spaces safely and efficiently.”