Minnesotan architect, Jeff Montague, recently submitted images of his prototype called the Storage Paper, made in collaboration with Minneapolis-based HouMinn Practice. Storage Paper consists of a module of fissured fabric pockets that works as a wallpaper when it’s flat. As a storage device, the pockets bulge and expand when objects are stuffed within.
Designer’s statement: Storage Paper operates somewhere between wallpaper, storage and the modern living environment. The project interrogates each entities capacity to affect and be affected upon by users with various behavioral capacities (i.e. a young child’s ability to engage and act upon the material properties with an environment is very different than a mature adult).
close-up of the fabric pockets
Jeff was initially inspired by origami, and how surface cutouts generate a voluminous expansion.
You can view Storage Paper at the ‘Envelopes’ exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery
