Origami architecture - Church tower

My first ever original origami architecture. It is not that complex. Yet it gave me so much pleasure diagramming a model and completing it.

It is a miniature church tower with out the cross on the top.

church tower

church tower front view
 

You can download the diagram image and print it on A4 sheet. It is diagrammed to the scale.


church tower - diagram - print on A4 sheet

You need to cut along the dotted lines and fold along the solid ones. Apply glue on the extra rectangle protruding to the left from the first wall and paste it with the last side wall. Apply glue on the extra cones protruding out of the tower cones and paste them with the adjacent cones. You have the church tower ready.

This being my first original, my diagramming and explanation is not that perfect. I will work on better diagramming conventions and explanations as I build more and update the blog :)

I know many would say this is not truly origami as I am cutting and pasting. Lack of better word. May be we can call it kirigami ?

If you build this model, please leave a comment. Thanks.

Flowers and boats

Folded some basic flowers and sampans with the color papers.


Dhalia. Very simple to fold and glue. And looks nice as well.

Dahlia

 

 

 

5 petal kusudama morning dew.

4 petal kusudama flower easy one

Covered sampan

double side covered sampan

 

 My variation to the double covered sampan model. Single side covered sampan. Slight variation while folding.

one side covered sampan

 source: http://www.origami-instructions.com/

Origami links

Some of my favorite websites I turn to when I feel like folding something.

http://dev.origami.org/diagram.cfm
I started learning origami from this website. I wish it were a bit more colorful. It contains model diagrams from simple to advanced. Around 700+ models in their model database and not a single ad.

www.origami-instructions.com/‎
Simple and colorful models. Very good classification of models. This website will make you fall in love with origami. Very user friendly website.

http://en.origami-club.com/
Another colorful website with good classification. It even has animation videos along with model folding diagrams.

http://www.origami-make.com/
Contains lot of model diagrams. One needs to be patient as the pages contain few folding steps per page and you need to keep clicking next/next.

http://www.langorigami.com/
Robert Lang's website. Need I say more? :)

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-3D-Origami-Pieces
3D origami swan. The technique explained here can be used to create variety of 3D models. Really a test of patience.

http://www.papertoys.com/
This is not really origami in the truest sense. It is cutting and gluing paper to create 3D shapes and architecture. A really nice one. Just a take a print out. Cut along the lines and paste. Hmmm. Not that simple :)

http://cp.c-ij.com/en/
Cannon's creative park. Full of colorful models. Action models, Architecture, Animals, you name it. It has everything and their models are of finest quality and very high accuracy.

http://global.yamaha-motor.com/yamahastyle/entertainment/
Yamaha's papercraft website. Yea! They do have awesome realistic looking bike models apart from some animals and pop up cards.

http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=popup%20card
popup card gallery

Traditional Tulip

 

Tulip

 

Paper transformations

Paper transformations - Making 3d shapes out of paper by cutting,folding,pasting etc.
Here we not only want to make shapes, but also we want to know how to make a 3d shape of given parameters. And also the dimensions of the paper that would be required to create the 3d shape.

Simplest 3d shape that can be formed of paper is a cylinder. You just take rectangular paper and paste two opposite sides together. Height of the cylinder will be breadth of the rectangle and circumference of the cylinder base will be height of the rectangle or vice-versa. We can thus calculate the height and breadth of the rectangle required to form the cylinder of desired height and base

Now if we have to form a simple geometric cone out of paper, what shape do we have to take and paste? To figure this out, lets take an imaginary cone object made of paper. If we flatten it what shape would it form? Equilateral Triangle? No. It would be a sector of a circle. If we take a sector of a circle and join and paste the lengths, we get a cone . Like below:





sector==> cone
The following figure explains how the sector of a circle and the cone formed out of it are related.


The other details can be easily worked out. Like the height of cone will be square root of sum of the squares of L and R using Pythagoras formula. And the angle theta of the sector of the first circle is length of the arc divided by radius L.

By this reverse mapping, we can create a cone with desired parameters.

Up Next : Creating inclined cones.

Recently bought A4 color sheets.
Folded some traditional designs.

Lily

          Water lily



Steam Boat

Steam boat

 Swan

Swan

Modular Box

Modular box

Hope to fold more and upload :)