Developed by Biruta Kresling, Paris-based architect and researcher on folded structures. The pattern is the result of the natural warping of paper from torsional load. Kresling shows how this warping could be used through an experiment with cylinders and paper. She found that after wrapping the paper around the two cylinders and subjecting them to torsional stress, it led to the emergence of a distinctive pattern. The folding structure between the two cylinders was remarkably uniform and organized. This structure comprised slanted and parallelograms (resembling mountain folds), separated along their longer diagonal by a valley fold. It has been used for mechanical engineering due to its bistability.
Today, I tried making a Kresling origami. I used a sheet of Cason watercolor paper cut into a 23 by 23 centimeter square. After about two hours of measuring, folding, and taping, the model was finished. This was actually my second attempt making this model because I mixed up the width and length or the crease pattern at the first attempt. That ended up messing with the proportions causing the edges to not meet up together forming an incomplete hexagon. This time I was more careful to follow the exact proportions and there was no gaps or extra flaps sticking out. At first, I tried using Scotch tape to fasten the two edges, but I couldn’t get the tape to stick especially with all the folds. I then resorted to packaging tape which had a much more heavy duty adhesive that successfully secured the model.