Video: Following in the footsteps of the Three Little Pigs, or paper masterpieces of modern architecture
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
My house is my fortress, Naf-Naf once thought, the character of the famous children's fairy tale about three pigs, and he built himself a reliable, strong house of brick, in contrast to his unlucky brothers who took up the construction of small architectural forms of straw and wood. I suppose you remember how this story ended for both the piglets and the gray wolf. But the Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus decided that "we are not afraid of the gray wolf", so her architectural masterpieces are entirely composed of paper. And we are not talking about cardboard houses, but about amazing, exquisite models of palaces, stadiums, pagodas, and even entire city blocks. Ingrid names the Japanese professor Masahiro Chatani as her teacher and ideological inspirer, who has been studying the art of creating architectural origami for more than 30 years. The Dutch artist's experience is not so impressive, but her works delight, surprise, inspire and shock in the best sense of the word. Just think - all these stunning buildings are "built" from a single sheet of paper!
It's hard to believe that these fragile buildings were once just a piece of paper. For a miraculous transformation to take place, it is not enough to have the talent of an artist - you need truly angelic patience, as well as the skills of an architect and a surgeon, in order to make cuts in the appropriate places with an accuracy of a millimeter, with a firm, unwavering hand, and then bend and fold the paper accordingly. From time to time Ingrid Siliakus makes two or three dozen test layouts, prototypes, and only then proceeds to "clean copy" of the next architectural origami from paper.
What to do with paper buildings, let them be at least three times beautiful? Ask Nike, which used a miniature paper copy of Camp Nou as a prototype for invitation cards to one of their events. Read more about paper architecture on the Ingrid Siliakus website.
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