
Based in Germany, OMA isn’t afraid of dramatic facades, and often uses glass to bring concrete to life.

For this experiment, Tim harnessed the styles of OMA or the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. This particular crumple had some height to it, so it was interesting to see how the AI would translate that into architecture that’s still feasible and structurally sound. To push things further, Tim experimented with new forms, resulting in even more interesting outputs. Inspired by Hadid’s organic approach, the building has a fluid appeal to it too, almost as if it were carved by water, wind, and erosion. The AI’s work is not too different, using not a single straight line in the process. The late architect’s works explore immense, sometimes highly challenging forms, bridging art and engineering in an iconic way. The curved architecture aims at creating dynamic spaces on the inside as well as an exterior that benefits well from direct sunlight, creating a unique interplay between highlights and shadows.Ī prompt to turn the paper into the architecture of Zaha Hadid yielded some interesting results too. Maréchal Fayolle in Paris, the AI created a multi-level building with curved, undulating facades in white. Inspired by the architecture of the Sydney Modern Museum and the Apartments on Ave. Below is an example of the AI harnessing the style of Pritzker-prize-winning architectural firm SANAA (Sejima And Nishizawa And Associates). The second part of the exercise was to give the AI a prompt, instructing it to manipulate the image in the style of your choosing. The keys of the keyboard acted as a neat perspective guide for the AI, helping it understand scale, height, perspective, etc. Tim simply crumpled a piece of high-GSM paper (for more detailed folds) ad placed it on his keyboard as a base. The image above served as Tim’s source file, which the AI took as a visual input. Designers and architects can now look anywhere for inspiration, and rely on artificial intelligence to bring their visions to life… After all, if crumpled paper can look this good! The results are fantastic, but more so, they open up new possibilities for ideation. Tim’s prompts featured names of prominent architectures, and the AI did the rest, turning the haphazard folds in the paper into architectural details. The AI works by accepting an image as a visual input and a description or prompt as a text input.

“This is part of a research collaboration with an all-new AI model specializing in architectural design! Public release announcing soon,” he adds. “This is NOT Midjourney / Stable Diffusion / Dalle,” says Tim.
MODULAR ORIGAMI STAR 3D SERIES
Simply dubbed “Crumpled Paper Architecture”, this series explores a new kind of AI tool specialized in architectural design. Some artists have used it to imagine sapphire-crusted gold thrones, others have turned luxury automobiles into high-octane off-roaders, and architect Tim Fu is using similar AI tools to realize large architectural marvels by using something as unusual as crumpled paper as his source of inspiration. Tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Dall♾ help push our creativity to new heights by allowing us to imagine practically anything. Continue linking all 12 star points together to form one large circle origami star.AI might not steal our jobs, but it for sure will help us become MUCH more talented. Slide the two sides of the bottom angled leg of one star point into the pockets on either right angled leg of the next star point.

Repeat the star point with the 11 remaining pieces of square origami paper. Fold the triangle in half length-wise with the side that was the spine, is the side that was last facing up. Flip the paper over and fold the bottom point up to form a new shape that resembles a triangle.

Take the left center point and fold it to the center crease. Hold the paper at an angle to resemble a diamond shape. Run a pencil or straight edge over the creases to set. Fold precisely each corner of the square in towards the center point. Crease and unfold the first square origami paper in half both vertically and horizontally, making four equal quarters.
MODULAR ORIGAMI STAR 3D HOW TO
In this video you can learn how to fold a modular origami star.
