Origami Architecture Concept Model

After making several folding architectural models, I have developed the final conceptual model. This model’s fundamental design principle is continuity, based on the origami architectural principle. I have imagined what if floors become benches, the benches become walls, and walls become roofs.

Architectural Languages: Origami Architecture

I found an architectural proposition in the garbage truck, which is folding principles. I created various types of conceptual models to understand how they create space and how they consist of each other for construction. By analysing the architectural proposition and doing some tests, I decided to explore Origami Architecture. Origami, derived from “ori”, meaning folding, and “gami”, meaning paper, is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding. This concept has spread across continents over time, shaping its evolution, practice, techniques, and use. As an Origami conceptual model, I can develop an overall architectural design strategy.

THE GARBAGE RESEARCH

 [Tilting system]
Device for lifting, tilting and discharging garbage containers into a collecting garbage truck. The hydraulic cylinders used for the dump truck tilting system are too long to be lifted to a good height. It also requires a cylinder with a greater diameter so that it can bear the weight of the materials in the truck.

[The Waste Scraper]
Once the waste is dumped, it is compacted by a hydraulically powered moving wall oscillating backwards and forwards to push it to the vehicle’s rear. Most of the newer packing trucks have “pack-on-the-go hydraulics”, which lets the driver pack loads while driving, allowing faster route times.

 [The push plate mechanism]
After the garbage is full, the vehicle is transported to the garbage transfer station or treatment site, the filler is turned on, and the push plate mechanism pushes backwards to push the garbage out of the garbage bin. After the garbage is unloaded, the push plate should be retracted in time. And locked the filler completed garbage collection and transportation work.

THE GARBAGE TRUCK; FUTURE POTENTIAL MACHINE

Not worth it now, but the future will be worth it.

Thinking about the PG14 theme of this year,
Constructed Future, the first thing that comes to mind is garbage. Although many people consider it worthless or trivial, garbage can be valuable and worthy resources in the future, not only for recycled products, but also for architectural materials.

The garbage truck, this year’s artefact, which is the only vehicle that collects a massive amount of waste for cleaning and recycling to make sustainable materials, has future potential.

Section of The Burns Night

The project designed a pop-up Burns Night, Scottish traditional culture. The event hall opens up an existing plaza of the Economist building and teases out an imaginative and delicate relationship between timber structure columns, each floor’s different programme, and the existing urban location within St. James in London. Non-hinged columns support this proposal; connections, tension rods and column restraints are steel. It speculates on a new theatrical landscape to attract the local community to enjoy traditional Scottish events.

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