Paper Shelters
TU Darmstadt
Subject: Teaching Assignment
Project: Interdisciplinary research project in the fields of architecture, paper chemistry and paper production.
Title: Instant Homes - Emergency Shelters from Paper
Lecture: Origami in art, design and architecture
Workshop: Origami in art, design and architecture
Photography: Sandra Junker
Design/ Student: Leila Chu
Departure/Faculty: Architecture
University: TU Darmstadt
City: Darmstadt
Kristina Wißling was invited to teach basic folding techniques in an context of an interdisciplinary research project of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. The aim was to work on the development of Instant Homes "Paper shelters".
The topic of the seminar was the development of an architectural concept for a foldable emergency paper shelter that can be used in disaster areas. The designed emergency shelter had to be space and weight saving, transportable, easy to assemble and designed for a shelf life of at least one year. It should offer optimum protection against weather influences and the possibility of flexible room partitioning.
Furniture and special functionalities such as resource extraction could be optimally integrated, and these should also to be developed from paper-based materials. After use, it should be possible to "dispose" of the accommodation by biodegradation or composting.
At the beginning of the seminar, a two-day workshop was held in which the students were introduced to the basic folding techniques. The first theoretical part dealt with the history of origami - from the Japanese art form to industrial applications, as well as origami folding in an architectural context.
What possibilities does paper offer and where are the possibilities and limits of paper?
In the second practical part the students received an introduction to folding techniques for technical applications, as well as an insight into basic structures that can be used in areas of minimizing and maximizing objects and structures, and thus are helpful, among other things, for the miniaturization of mobile architectures. The last and third part dealt with folding techniques that make it possible to achieve different levels of stability.
The seminar took place in cooperation with the departments of paper chemistry and paper production. The aim was, based on the created designs, to develop special paper tailored to the special individual requirements.
Name: Eggbox Pattern
Crease Pattern Size: 300mm*450mm
Folding Technology: Manually Folding
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