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Architecture
Models representing all sorts of buildings, bridges and similar structures.
This page lists models of a single type. You might be interested in folding instructions instead.
Redoubt
This design was inspired by the Polish poem Reduta Ordona (Ordon’s Redoubt) by Adam Mickiewicz, loosely based on events of the 1831 Russian assault on Warsaw.
Column of Flagellation
Originally, this work was supposed to be a joke, and to get a punny title such as Vertebral Column or Ribbed Column. However, while I was working on it, my v...
The Golden Gate of Kyiv
The Golden Gate of Kyiv (Золоті ворота) was the main gate of the city in the early middle ages. Today the city is under attack again. Origami tessellation f...
Monument to the Crane
This is my design for a monument to the traditional origami crane. I envision it executed in grand size, standing on a public square or in front of an origam...
San Francisco Bay
A view of San Francisco Bay, folded from a single square of Satogami paper. This origami painting is not based on any singular image, but a compilation of mu...
Trifora
This kind of tripartite window was a popular motif in sacral architecture, found in many architectural styles, including Romanesque and Gothic.
Tent-Like House
A simple house from my Building Block Units, designed for a workshop with architecture students.
Cottage 1.1
This is an improved version of my origami Cottage, made from Building Block Units.
Three Ancient Pyramids
A simple origami corrugation, folded from Canford paper. With the right choice of proportions, this corrugation can be made iso-area.
Study of Lucca Cathedral in Origami
A quick study of Lucca cathedral as an origami tessellation on my way to the Italian CDO convention.
Mansion
An origami mansion, folded using several variants of my Building Block Units (BBU). I re-used many of the modules which were earlier used for The Tower of Ba...
Celtic Cross 1.1
An improved version of my Celtic Cross. Based on standing crosses found throughout the British Isles.
Trilithon I
An origami Trilithon based on those found at Stonehenge. The model is numbered I since I also designed some other variants with different proportions and one...
Penguin Attack
A giant penguin (designed by Blanka Pentela (Blunek) ascending King-Kong style the Palace of Culture and Science. This 250 m tall building was erected in War...
Palace of Culture
The Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) is a 250 m tall building which was erected in Warsaw in the 1950’s as a sign of Soviet domination. ...
Celtic Cross
This free-standing cross was inspired by high crosses — stone monuments erected throughout the Middle Ages in Ireland and Britain.
Taipei 101
Modular origami rendition of Taipei 101, one of the world’s tallest buildings. I thought reproducing this structure’s characteristic staggered facade in orig...
Puppy in Front of a Doghouse
A Business Card Puppy (Larry Stevens) sitting in front of BBU doghouse (Michał Kosmulski).
BBU Doghouse
Dog house designed by me using several modified variants of Building Block Units. All units (3 for the roof and 13 for the walls and entrance) made from squa...
Doghouse for Yara Yagi’s Dachshund
I like Yara Yagi’s Dachshund very much. I will be teaching this model at this year’s Outdoor Origami Meeting so I thought a nice dog like this deserved a mat...
Dachshund in Doghouse
Yara Yagi’s dog is standing in front of a doghouse designed be me specially to match this model.
Nomad Camp Tessellation
I derived the Nomad Camp Tessellation from my Dancing Squares Tessellation.
The Tower of Babel
This rendition of the Tower of Babel consists of a series of square platforms placed one on top of another and rotated by 45 degrees at each level. This frac...
Sears Tower / Willis Tower
Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) is an iconic skyscraper located in Chicago. The origami model presented here is made from my Building Block Units (768 × ...
Egyptian Pyramid
This design can be extended indefinitely by adding more and more levels (a smaller, single-level variant is also possible). The walls are angled at 45 degree...
Cottage
A very simple building without many details. I later improved the design while preserving its simplicity (see Cottage 1.1).
Church
This model does not represent any actual church. Instead, it freely mixes elements typically found in small churches (rectangular floor plan without transept...
Bell Tower
Inspired by traditional Polish wooden churches and the wooden belfry in Paczyna.
Pyramid (6 levels high)
This model consists of just a 2-cube thick hull of a pyramid. This makes it possible to create a larger model with fewer modules than in the case of a comple...
Meshed Pyramid (8 levels high)
While it may not be obvious at first, this model has some features which make it strikingly similar to the business card table model. The table’s top is cons...