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Building in Paper
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2006.22.2.art00043_3  Published OnlineJanuary 2006
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Generated from an assignment for a digital fabrication class at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, this project demonstrates how the simple application of digital fabrication techniques to everyday materials can create innovative construction methods and expose the potential for new architectural design.The assignment called for a wall to be constructed solely out of paper, twelve feet in length and at least eight feet high using the principles of digital fabrication.From the very outset, our understanding of the problem was simple: paper does not resist any load applied in plane when it is left unmodified, it merely buckles. However, as soon as a single sheet of paper is folded its ability to resist load increases dramatically. It then became an exercise in testing combinations of folded paper to maximize both compressive strength as well as lateral stability, the final result being the simplification of previous iterations.

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Tyler Hinckley, Emmanouil Vermisso, "Building in Paperin Proc. IS&T Digital Fabrication Conf.,  2006,  pp 135 - 139,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2006.22.2.art00043_3

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