Origami Design Strategies for Architects and Designers. Analysis and Design of Folded Surfaces Through Algorithmic Modelling

Both in the field of manufacturing and architecture, the art of paper folding (origami) is often taken as a reference for its kinetic proprieties and its elegant appearance. Dynamic facades, fast deployment structures, temporary shelters, portable furniture, and retractile roofs, are only a few of a vast variety of examples that can take advantage of theories proper of origami art. However, the available applications typically used by architects and designers are usually missing tools to aid the design of foldable mechanisms. Thus, this book addresses different strategies to narrow the gap between the potentialities of this discipline and the limits of the most used informatics tools, by proposing a synthetic parametric constructive approach, which allows designers with no background in math and scripting to deal with design problems typical of origami, such as folding simulations, rigid foldability, one degree of freedom motion, origami thickening, developability checking and more.