Geometry and Philosophy of Folding:
Architecture as a Derivative

Department of Architecture · Master Thesis Presentation

This thesis explores the emergence of folding in architecture as both a theoretical and practical phenomenon between 1990 and 2006, using the concept of the “fold” as its focal point. As Greg Lynn describes in the introduction to his 2004 publication “Folding in Architecture”, early folding projects were characterized by “happy accidents” — designs that embraced complexity through experimentation, automatism, arbitrariness, and chance. Within this context, the fold has appeared in multiple roles: as a metaphor, as a physical mechanism of bending and layering, and even as an extension of a kind of digital Gothic sensibility.

Sketch · Threshold Study