Final Project : Paul Michael Kencalo

The metamorphic folding house allows the inhabitants to change elements of
the structure so as to adapt to the environment. Acting like a barometer to
climatic conditions, topography, to seasonal changes, and to the day/ night
cycle, the structure is capable of opening up towards the view of the infinite
horizon and infinite sky thereby acting as memory and metaphor of the life
cycle.

 From the initial folding and weaving exercises and the examination of
traditional methods of aboriginal housing typology where folding and weaving
are used extensively, the metamorphic folding house extrapolates the use of
these methods. Through the opening and closing, folding in and out as well
as weaving vertically and horizontally, the structure responds to the prevailing
environmental conditions such as light, wind and humidity thereby creating
multiple skins and layering which can be used to different effects.

Internally of the structure, the exercise of folding and weaving is continued
through use of metamorphic folding furniture elements which can also act as
a secondary type of environmental skin. A bulkhead can be transformed into
a bed, wall of shelves, a benchtop, room divider, lounge chair, molded by the
inhabitants imagination, mood and needs.