{"607197":{"#nid":"607197","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Origami: The Art of Folding Paper and a Method for Creating Shelter","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOrigami is much more than the art of folding paper. Georgia Tech students use it as a method for creating shelters and active facades.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn December 2017, students from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;proposed an origami design that earned them an opportunity to travel to Japan to learn from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iass2018.org\/speakers\/tomohiro-tachi\/\u0022\u003ETomohiro Tachi\u003C\/a\u003E, a widely-known origami expert and associate professor in graphic and computer sciences at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/index.html\u0022\u003EUniversity of Tokyo\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/master-architecture\u0022\u003EMaster of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;students, Leila Moghimi (\u0026rsquo;18) and Kashmira Ranadive (\u0026rsquo;18), enrolled in an origami-focused civil engineering course in fall 2017 semester, a course taught by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/people\/Faculty\/6709\/overview\u0022\u003EGlaucio Paulino\u003C\/a\u003E, Raymond Allen Jones Chair and professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The reason that we opted for this class,\u0026rdquo; Ranadive said, \u0026ldquo; was because it was parallel to our studio project. Almost the entire studio was in our class except maybe three students. It was kind of like a collaborative exercise between Daniel Baerlecken and Glaucio Paulino.\u0026rdquo; Moghimi, Ranadive, and their classmates were encouraged by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/people\/daniel-baerlecken\u0022\u003EDaniel Baerlecken\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor in the School of Architecture, to take the class as it related to the origami-based coursework in his design and research studio.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/origami-art-folding-paper-and-method-creating-shelter\u0022\u003EFor the full story, click here.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn December 2017, students from the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Architecture\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;proposed an origami design that earned them an opportunity to travel to Japan to learn from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iass2018.org\/speakers\/tomohiro-tachi\/\u0022\u003ETomohiro Tachi\u003C\/a\u003E, a widely-known origami expert and associate professor in graphic and computer sciences at the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.u-tokyo.ac.jp\/en\/index.html\u0022\u003EUniversity of Tokyo\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Origami is much more than the art of folding paper. 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