Sheet Metal Origami

The complex folded form inspired by plant growth and structures is efficiently manufactured using minimal processes which result in a product exhibiting no joints or welds.

Sheet metal origami.

One square sheet of metal will do the trick. The idea is that you start with a sheet paper that fold into sculptures without cutting or gluing it this is a piece i did with a single p. Once again fifth gear gives us a hand in showing that. There is a limit for the amount of energy that sheet metal origamis are prepared to handle.

By perforating the metal at specific points much like how craftsmen score paper to create neater folds industrial origami claims that their procedure cuts down energy consumption. When no origami can protect you. But there are situations in which not even graham would make it. Designed by angela and mark gilbert of gilbert13 fold is a metal shelf made from a single sheet of steel hand folded into shape along lasercut perforations.

If you go beyond that cars will crush in the same way a piece of paper would against your hands.