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Modular

Artw — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:41:17 -0800

Origami inspired bamboo and paper modular buildings for use as temporary shelters, by Ming Tang.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:29:11 -0800

Just beautiful! I'd love to have a small version.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:48:45 -0800

Oh those are beautiful, elegantly simple and futuristic in a tribal kind of way. So cool they are modular and they fold. wow. MeFite Eric Gjerde is expert on origamic tesselations. Here's his origamic PC. Another Origami inspired house and another. I love bamboo houses, especially the open bamboo architecture of Bali or the spaciousness of longhouses of Borneo, in the jungly or townhouse

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:49:24 -0800

*Borneo, jungly or townhouse.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:53:42 -0800

Neat. I love both origami (see my first FPP evar) and bamboo (I don't have FPProof of this one). But these seem a little over-engineered. It's for disasters--why not just a tripod? Or system of tripods that can connect to cover a large area?

By: DU

DU — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:00:14 -0800

Bamboo + twine + canvas (?) = real life legos, though. You could make some seriously cool stuff with some standardized connector(s) to hook all that up.

By: Tube

Tube — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:37:14 -0800

Most people associate the name Hoberman with toys, but he has created artistic and functional structures as well. For those who wish to pursue this stuff, I've found the term "deployable" to be a useful search term. DSL designs planar retractable roofs. This funky website is chock full of home-brew geodesic domes and other interesting structures.

By: localroger

localroger — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:42:52 -0800

Tube, did you ever see Dome Book II? I only ever checked it out of the library and now wish I'd spent the money I didn't have back then to buy a copy. It was a wealth of domey information useful for lots of things even though the authors lost faith in it as a construction manual.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:47:09 -0800

Is there nothing bamboo can't do?

By: DU

DU — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:53:34 -0800

Wow, that garden dome site is awesome. I've kind of lost faith in domes as well, but not lost interest. I visited a public farm (long story) this week that was building a geodesic greenhouse. I wanted to quiz them on particulars but had (what seemed like) thousands of toddlers preventing me.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:33:24 -0800

Man, think of how cool it'll look when they evolve to being able to build 64-bit bamboo origami houses!

By: Tube

Tube — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:36:39 -0800

Tube, did you ever see Dome Book II? No, but I read Lloyd Kahn's book Shelter. If I have a camera at the time and run across a dome, I'll usually take a photo.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:08:18 -0800

If you have a house like this, though, will there always be a flock of photoshop white birds flying overhead? Cause, you know, the droppings could be a problem.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:11:22 -0800

Is there nothing bamboo can't do? Absolutely nothing, as far as Hong Kongers are concerned.

By: twoleftfeet

twoleftfeet — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:55:43 -0800

These are really lovely but I have the insane urge to grab one of these houses, flex it back and forth, and predict which of the boys on the playground will marry which of the girls. (*)

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:06:03 -0800

*Correction. That is Tomohiro Tachi's origamic laptop PC ("an ENTIRE LAPTOP PC created from one sheet of paper"). DU, Your point about maybe making a simpler design for an emergency went through my mind as well. Funny about the toddlers. Sounds like a Gulliver experience. Tube, whoa, those DSL designs planar retractable roofs are so beautiful! A bit like a camera aperture.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:45:55 -0800

Great post, Artw, thanks. Ming Tang's main site looks well worth exploring, too, and he has an awesome collection of links.

By: ericales

ericales — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:52:50 -0800

Maybe it was the backgrounds, but I saw this and instantly thought: ewoks.