I'm working to complete the English version as soon as possible.  You might want to take a look at the Spanish site, though, it'll give you a pretty good idea of what this is going to be.  AND MOST OF THE INSTRUCTIONS ARE BILINGUAL! UPDATES  - 13-Jul-08   DIAGRAMS:   SCALED OCTAHEDRON DIAGRAMS:   Compound module + 3 different models DIAGRAMS: Action Origami - Puzzle Cube DIAGRAMS: Kusudama Bow a la Carte with instructions

What I like about Modular Origami is precisely the fact that it is modular. Each fold opens infinite possibilities to build all sorts of models. 

When I started there was no one in Argentina teaching this branch, so I made my first folds thanks to the generosity of a few sites that were in the web already at that time, like  Meenakshi Mukhopadhyay's,  Helena Verrill's, Tom Hull's, or the pages of Jim Plank or David Mitchell, who offer diagrams and detailed photos and explanations. I wish this site might be equally useful for those who want to start, or get on learning. In particular, I'll try to complete the existing information on the web with some comments and articles on how to make or assemble certain models, the type of modules and their authors, interesting facts and the possibilities I myself have found for some modules.

I include also a page with commented links (those that I consider essential), but these days the field is expanding very fast and every time I check the web I find new excelent pages from all over the world, many with lots of diagrams both for modular and classical origami, and for the new specialties like crease patterns (CP), tessellations and other wonders.

Nowadays I teach at the Centro Cultural José Ingenieros of the School of Medicine - UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and at the Imaginary Museum of the Universidad Nacional de Gral. Sarmiento, besides some private classes. 

One of the most interesting developments is the possible use of modular origami in the classroom. The magic transition from two to three dimensions never loses appeal. Bringing together a number of flat little pieces to make a polyhedron, or to turn one into another the way Tomoko Fusè shows in her tansformations (Unit Origami) seem to me extraordinary aids for the geometry class and de development of fine motricity skills.

At the Imaginary Museum ( UNGS), there is a Polyhedra Room with pieces I made some years back when I was playing about with mosaics and tessellations of the plane. Because they were an interactive museum, they asked me to suggest some activity to complement the visits, and that's how I met origami and the Sonobè module, which to this day are the main course served to the visiting schools.

The model I'm putting together in these photos kindly taken by my friend Silvana Castro is a composite of  20 cubes I found in David Mitchell's page, though his was made with another module. He mentions it can be built with other modules and I made mine based on the 24-unit sonobè cube, seeking through trial and error until I found the way to fold the units at the vertex, something that has opened the door to other structural forms that may be created by adding and chaining, and that's what I'm at now... exploring other possibilities.

Fractal Cubes

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