.png)
1 week ago
6
There’s an old saying in most universes that we are familiar with, that people in paper houses should not throw burning torches, which is a silly thing to say because probably if you are in a wooden house or standing in a crowd of flammable people you should not throw burning torches either -. but that’s folk sayings for you, long on the pithy, short on the logic.
This has been on my mind recently as I have been doing some work getting Architéktōn — The Illuminati Ganga architectural idea simulator up and running, and while doing that I have been walking through the cities abutting Amberton’s Cross-Dimensional store for all needs and desires. So for hours at a time in the abstract world built up on fantasy, balanced with hours of time walking in the nitty gritty world of major metropolitan areas.
And it has come to my attention that the people of the world are just not up to date with some of the more advanced architectural ideas out there, specifically — Although almost every member of Illuminati Ganga nowadays lives in a paper house, or at a house composed almost primarily of paper (for some people who have decided to recycle frameworks of older buildings), almost nobody in the real world even knows Paper houses exist or that they are a possibility.
Houses of Partial Paper
Architecture has various things it must concern itself — the ability of housing to withstand the environment, the cost in construction, the ability to support the necessary technologies of a culture, and the need to divide interior space.
Most cultures have divided interior space with more permanent divisions, such as walls, these of course also allowed to provide structural support for the building against the environmental pressures it found itself under.
Nowadays much of the interior divisions of buildings can be removed opening up larger areas, as in the many factory conversions to office buildings one encounters
One advanced way to develop room divisions in the present is to use SimulPaper room dividers from Illuminati Ganga International, based on the traditional Japanese Shoji screens
SimulPaper is a form of paper that is stronger than normal paper due to a woven steel monofilament adding extra support. This technology is currently only available to employees and artists of Illuminati Ganga — it is slightly heavier than normal paper but incredibly strong.
Shoji screens developed with SimulPaper allow you to separate out parts of a building without the normal drawbacks of dividers made from paper
The Shoji Tea House
At the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa in 2018 artists installed a tea house constructed out of Shoji Screens
With the widespread usage of SimulPaper in society these kinds of structures will be easy to build, distribute, take down, and reuse.
Recently the Artist Oliver Croy found hundreds of models of paper houses stored by I.G Agents in the 1960s of a small variant universe somewhat off the beaten path
This work is being carried on in the present day by such luminaries as Charles Young at Paperholm
Houses of Full Paper
Of course the first full paper house was made by IG Agent 85 — Elis Stenman — in 1922 (long before SimulPaper was invented, although Agent 99 did deliver samples back to Stenman via the Protervus so as to give him some insights into the possibilities of the future)
Of course being an early, exploratory work in the use of Paper as an architectural medium, the Paper house is very old fashioned and not as alive to the possibilities that SimulPaper brings to bear.
It is, from an imaginative standpoint, not much more exciting than the origami house — done big
For a fuller overview of possibilities I would suggest viewing
https://parametrichouse.com/origami-structures-and-examples/
Other Articles of Interest
IG Agent 99
Architecture
Misc
