Princeton student Denisa Buzatu's vision for an environmentally sustainable building is a sort of shape-shifting origami façade. For her senior thesis, Buzatu, a civil and environmental engineering ...

In another hard-won triumph for contemporary architecture in Paris, a new building casts stone into bright and airy modernism. Paris’s urban center is a large set piece that’s preened and ...

With the windows recessed, the trim is able to be applied perpendicular to the facade, giving it more visual depth than what is typically achieved with standard flat trim.” Origami is a study in ...

By far the most noticeable aspect of the project is its colorful facade. Inspired by the folds of paper in origami, the facade changes according to the needs of each individual apartment.

The folded facadeconsists of two layers. The outer one is a glazed skin made up of framed glass set in a tubular frame while the inner layer is the building’s windows. There are two major ...

Manuelle Gautrand Architects used an origami concept for the building's facade to create a playful double glass wall system. An inner, conventional glass curtain wall and a second system of custom ...

This Paris Building Has A Fluttering Origami Facade In another hard-won triumph for contemporary architecture in Paris, a new building casts stone into bright and airy modernism. What If Your Hot ...

The tridimensional façade combines Arabesque and Asanoha patterns while also referencing the traditional Japanese art of Origami ... and explored this across a facade that is a new kind of ...