What is the relation between origami and design buildings?

I am an architect and I like very much to make origami .


And you know there are many geometrical formulas in making an origami.


What I want to know is if I can use origami forms in design a building.


what is the relation between origami and design buildings?


would you please help me?


Thanks alot.

What is the relation between origami and design buildings?
Yes you most definately can.


Take the Sydney Opera House for an example.


Origami Architecture, including the Sydney Opera House on You Tube:http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_qu...


Origami and Geometrics: http://www.answers.com/origami%20and%20g...


Relation between Origami and Building Design:


http://www.aod.aau.dk/rps/


http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/05/...


http://www.arch.columbia.edu/gsap/48929/...


DISCOVER THE ARTS OF ORIGAMI AND ARCHITECTURE: http://www.nbm.org/Events/news/2004/Orig...


http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/current/orig...


http://www.origami.org.pl/en/Sections-ar...


http://store.origamido.com/arordebuoneq....


http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search...


Relation between Origami and Design:


http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bern96comple...


http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=23...


http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/osm/abst...


Mathematical Models of Origami and Origami Design


http://www.merrimack.edu/~thull/omfiles/...


http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/agb/Origam...


http://erikdemaine.org/papers/OSME2001/p...


http://www.mat.unb.br/~lucero/orig_e.htm...


http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search...


http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search...


http://webpages.charter.net/gstormer/


Peter Engel (born 1959) is a science writer, graphic designer, and architect, perhaps best known as one of the foremost American origami artists and theorists.





Engel studied the history and philosophy of science as an undergraduate at Harvard University, where he began studying origami seriously under design scientist Arthur Loeb. In 1987 he graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in architecture.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Engel


Mathematics of paper folding:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics...


Origamic architecture:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origamic_ar...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Sea...


Modular origami:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_ori...


Dr. Robert J. Lang (born 1961) is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world. He is known for his complex and elegant designs, most notably of insects and animals. He has long been a student of the mathematics of origami and of using computers to study the theories behind origami. He has made great advances in making real-world applications of origami to engineering problems.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._L...


http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?titl...


Origami Steel Boat building:


http://www.boatkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/bui...


Origami Concept Architecture: http://www.designcommunity.com/discussio...


Origami and Architecture on Ask:(look to your far right hand side for other great related sites: http://www.ask.com/web?q=origami+and+arc...


http://marivi_10.tripod.com/myhomenew.ht...


http://webpages.charter.net/gstormer/#pi...


http://www.google.com/Top/Arts/Crafts/Or...


http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en%26amp;q=orig...


Origami and Building Design on Google:


http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en%26amp;q=orig...


I found this Kinetic Sculpture artist interesting. He is Brilliant in my opinion.http://www.glumbert.com/media/kineticscu...


http://flickr.com/photos/dharmesh/100335...


http://flickr.com/photos/origomi/3500769...


http://flickr.com/search/?q=origami+arch...


http://flickr.com/photos/tags/origamicar...


Frank Lloyd Wright "Origami Chair" @ Taliesin West


http://flickr.com/photos/94539187@N00/48...


http://flickr.com/search/?q=origami+arch...


http://flickr.com/photos/melisande-origa...


http://flickr.com/ to search for more designs.


http://search.ebay.com/geometric-origami...


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/104...


I hope this has helped you understand the relation between Origami and Building Design/Architecture.