Caterpillar

What if you take an origami folding pattern and try to make it out of a different material? A material that doesn’t have all the features paper does. A material that is only hard, not soft. Strong, but not tearable. A material that can only be cut with special machinery and not by simple scissors. A material that cannot be folded. Will it change the feeling you get when looking at it? Will the origami pattern have a different impact now that it is not made from paper, but a hard material? These are the kind of questions I asked myself when I started this project and this is what I tried to answer. I experimented with wood as well as steel to see how the change in material can alter the perception, impact and function the collapsible can have.

Stop Motion of wood Caterpillar.

Stop Motion of steel Caterpillar.