Awards of Excellence — 2015 Recipient
Patkau Architects
One Fold is an experiment that belongs to a long architectural ambition to realize structures with ever-higher strength to weight ratios.
As a self-supporting thin shell structure, One Fold spans and covers an area with a minimum of material and embodied energy.
It is lightweight, durable, demountable and recyclable. Its advantages include an extremely high strength to weight ratio and ease of distribution and fabrication. One Fold requires almost no secondary support structures.