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origami pattern from the Alhambra "Salón de Comares / alcoba2" (black version, final)
design/fold: Alessandro Beber, 20 Feb. 2025
paper: Japanese "tant" paper, one uncut 32cm black square + 25x white and 24x orange joined tiles.
Final version of this pattern in "marquetry origami tessellation" style, as some friends suggested to call it!
It's not the usual modular tiling approach of unit origami, in which individual modules are folded and then joined together. Instead, a tessellation is folded and used as a board, and several coloured tiles are inserted into it. These units have just few creases for a strong connection, and sometimes no creases at all!
This version looks identical to one shown a few posts ago. However, the layer ordering of different colours was changed, in order to have stronger connections for all the tiles.
This is by far my favourite version of this tiling, for its black borders and clean coloured tiles (grid creases appear only on the black areas).
#origami #art math #tessellation pattern islamic islamicart #islamicpattern tiling #alhambra nasrid granada
design/fold: Alessandro Beber, 20 Feb. 2025
paper: Japanese "tant" paper, one uncut 32cm black square + 25x white and 24x orange joined tiles.
Final version of this pattern in "marquetry origami tessellation" style, as some friends suggested to call it!
It's not the usual modular tiling approach of unit origami, in which individual modules are folded and then joined together. Instead, a tessellation is folded and used as a board, and several coloured tiles are inserted into it. These units have just few creases for a strong connection, and sometimes no creases at all!
This version looks identical to one shown a few posts ago. However, the layer ordering of different colours was changed, in order to have stronger connections for all the tiles.
This is by far my favourite version of this tiling, for its black borders and clean coloured tiles (grid creases appear only on the black areas).
#origami #art math #tessellation pattern islamic islamicart #islamicpattern tiling #alhambra nasrid granada
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