Origami Park Shelter
DEPLOYABLE STRUCTURE
Belle Isle | 2020
Detroit, MICHIGAN
FRAMEWORK
Develop a deployable observation shelter designed to accommodate four (4) separate modes of occupancy, laying down, lounging, sitting, and standing, for one person that can be deployed and de-mounted by no more than two (2) people. In addition, this deployable observation shelter should have minimum impact to the site and adjacent site conditions. The observation shelter does not exceed ten (10) feet in any linear direction and less than 100 square feet in total area. The shelter shall provide the occupant with shelter from weather conditions well providing a view for observation within a public space.
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DESIGN APPROACH
Centered around the user’s experience of deployment and de-mounting, the use of folds is a familiar way for people to expand and compress materials. Folds are used in objects operated by people in their daily lives, such as opening an umbrella on a rainy day, unfolding a bag chair for a tailgate, or the snap of the wrist to open a folding hand fan. Then applying folds to structural forms, the exploration of origami methods provides a unique intersection between design, rigidity, and operation. Adapting plated folds to a material provides a structural stiffness that increases the strength without the need to additional structural members. If structural integrity is achieved through origami folds, then a wider range of materials may be selected including materials that are lighter in weight.
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