4/27/2021
Wired (New York City, April 27) – Researchers at Harvard University employed origami to create a human-sized emergency shelter. When flat, the structure is about the size of a twin mattress. But when inflated, its walls widen and a roof snaps into place. “It’s a great bridging between the mechanics of origami – the geometry of it – and actually getting all the way to a large-scale structure. That’s quite rare,” says Ann Sychterz, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the U. of I. who was not involved in the study. READ ARTICLE