Date of Submission
Spring 5-12-2026
Degree Type
Dissertation/Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Architecture
Department
Architecture
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Arief Setiawan
Abstract
This research is an exploration of folding in architecture as a way of conceiving of form and space. Transformation of volumes and planes allow for the creation of a pliancy system that generates a complexity of both spatial and form making. The continuous form and space generated by the transformation allows for a phenomenal experience of the space both visual and physical by the incorporation of all aspects of the structure from the floors to the ceiling to the circulation to the structure, all incorporated to the singular system of folding. Folding can be understood as a system of regular and irregular folding techniques which can then be implemented to transform volumes, planes or both to generate form and space. Regular folding is a system of rules based on geometric properties or topological rules. The continuous system gives regular folding the aspects of repeti tions, organized, and easily repeatable for the same outcome. Irregular is governed by the lack of the aspects of regular folding, irregular focuses on the non-repetitive, adaptive to its surrounding and can be influenced by external forces, not stagnated by a rigid set of instructions to be achieved. Irregular is the universal form of folding while regular requires its own ecosystem of geometric principles to be achieved. However, both regular and irregular achieve the same potential for architecture by their shared principles of folding established by Deleuze the idea of Plic and Plex. The idea that one system can be adaptive, continuous, and pliancy. All combine to create complexity. The aim of this thesis is to create an understanding of folding as a generative process of space and form making. By identifying the techniques and strategies with the highest potential for architecture, a successful structure will be generated through folding.