As a followup to the project Armadillo, I was invited to collaborate with the Bertoldi Group and Chuck Hoberman in developing fabrication methodologies to design a family of origami structures with real world applications, which can be deployed from a flat arrangement to one or more rigid, bi-stable arrangements, using inflation and deflation.

Forms explored were an arch and a tent structure.

This work was a segue into my involvement with the NASA funded RETHi (Resilient Extra Terrestrial Habitat research institute). Work with RETHi is ongoing.