Origami Alzare

Jaipur, Rajasthan | Webb Origami Design Challenge

Awards & Nominations

Origami Alzare has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Webbogamian

High-Level Project Summary

"Arts-meets-science" is used to be just a quote for us before we explored the amazing and mind-blowing design of ‘James Webb Telescope’. It’s an inspiration and also a marvelous combination of art and technology. Our solution is an origami prototype of the James Webb Telescope, made by examining, analyzing whose each and every part reassembles the original prototype. A young enthusiastic can develop their mind regarding this telescope and admire it efficiently. While working on this project we learned how to use the artistic design and tools to explore big things like Sky, stars, and space, which base idea can be found in our surroundings using an artistic and creative notch.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.canva.com/design/DAErqCRpQIY/StyGLeqMYP7znZOr5JAW3g/view?utm_content=DAErqCRpQIY&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton

Link to Final Project

https://jklujaipur-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/priyambhardwaj_jklu_edu_in/ERdT9Gj8wjFKmaKvsXPLa1EBSic0kZUePBkh-8IpFpE-wQ?e=tusOhS

Detailed Project Description

Origami is the artwork of paper folding, that's regularly related to Japanese tradition. The aim is to convert a flat rectangular sheet of paper right into a completed sculpture thru folding and sculpting techniques. Hard to trust but an amazing fact that the amazing design ad sculpting of the James Webb Space Telescope is inspired by traditional origami. The idea used here is to make this huge telescope get fitted into a small cockpit of a rocket and further make it get it reshaped to a large working model.

Origami is basically an art to fold things in such a way that it looks beautiful and if needed can be reshaped again. With the help of this art, it was possible for scientists to adjust a big size telescope in a cockpit and reshaping it again when needed. We also created the drawing for empathy.

Importance of the project

This project is not just a model but an inspiration and a source of learning for all the citizens over here. Its special focus is for students who are curious and also keen to learn or explore the mysteries of space. This invention is a great opportunity for all those who are mad about space and galaxy and wanted to get the solution to different questions and mysteries.

The invention is to make different people aware of the fact that “nothing is soo far from us and also not soo difficult to achieve” either it’s a sky, space, galaxy, or even a JWST which can capture all over this. A good inspiration for students to learn that creativity and a sense of learning can change this world in a way you never thought.

Achievement

Origami is a tricky artwork done using without the usage of cutting & pasting. So, we tried to minimize their use, and this decision may provide us with more difficulties but enhanced our artistic and thinking skills. This project gave us both sour and sweet memorable experiences but out of all we were contented with our work and deeds, and this feeling struck differently. Out of all the panic, we came out with a good result and this was pleasurable and remarkable.

Tools Used

Accessories

Craft papers
Scissors/paper cutter
Pencil & Marker
Toothpick
Glue
Old newspapers
Chart papers

Software

Canva
Premier pro
Photoshop
Lightroom
Zoom
Google

Hardware

Mac and Windows PC's

Space Agency Data

List of components and data used for prototyping (Name of PDF)

· James Webb Space Telescope

· Observatory Model

· Building Printouts of Assembly Parts

· Webb's Mirrors

· Webb Model Gallery

· James Webb Space Telescope

· James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Model

· JWST (with Instruments)

We have used the data provided by Nasa in the following ways:

1. For the measurements of every component we refereed the blueprint of the James Web Telescope.

2. For actual visualization of the telescope we have seen the animated videos.

3. For the specification of every element in the telescope we refereed to all the theories that were available on the website

4. We have also used the 3-D model for setting the components in our prototype.

Hackathon Journey

Our experience

Perhaps not only new, but it was full of enthusiasm, we often take part in hackathons, but during this hackathon, there was a strange feeling of relaxation. Of course, it was also 48 hours of unmatched work, but it was a pleasure that after a long time on our working faces, away from the computer screen, we had a chance to make a world out of paper in the sky of our imagination.

Inspiration for Selecting this Project:

We are engineering students and got bored with coding and projects, for the past few months, we were waiting for the announcement of the theme of the NASA Space App challenge when the list of themes came, our eyes stuck to "WEBB ORIGAMI DESIGN CHALLENGE”. It was a golden opportunity for us to make full use of the creative minds of our team, to fulfill one of our childhood hobbies and fantasies which was filled with these moon stars on the limitless sky.

Challenges and overcome :

Although there are art enthusiasts in our team, half of the team had never worked on origami art and the rest of the team had learned the basics in childhood and hadn'tmade origami art in a long time.
Due to the Covid scenario, the entire team was unable to meet in person. As soon as therewere only 3 members in a common place for prototype work, the rest of the team kept in touch with Zoom and Videocall. Those who are good at design and artistic skills gave instructions to the non-artistic hands-on zoom meet, they did things like documentation, video editing, content creation, poster design, etc.

Learning

By doing this wonderful project we have developed creative thinking skills, 3D perception, logical thinking, focus, and concentration which help us to create a model of James web telescope using origami. This helped us to explore the unique model at our home by using simple craft paper. Also completing the project within 48 hours is quite challenging and time management is a must which we have also learned from this project.
We learned a lot, but the biggest lesson we learned was that when working as a team there was obviously a contradiction of ideas, but in the end, what counts is that we respect the opinions of our teammates. At last, we realized that our team's dignity is as important to us as our dignity.

Approach

When we talk about the basics, it is necessary that we have empathy with the subject for a project to bethe best. We startedby developing empathy for the word telescope, then childhood thoughts seemed like amber. We havegiven these thoughts the form of a story.

After that, we start studying the James Webb Space Telescope and then examine its design perspective. then we noted down the measurement of the parts of the Telescope.

Full attention was paid to the structure and functioning of the small components and their importance.

From the very beginning, our goal was to create something that is not limited to this competition but should be something that we can explore and modify later. Also, do something that can be the foundation not only for us but for upcoming NASA projectsaswell.

Thanksgiving

It is with a great sense of gratitude that we would like to express our appreciation to NASA Space Agency for granting us this opportunity. Being part of this Space App Challenge has been one of our most exciting experiences thus far. As an added benefit, we were also fortunate to work with Mr. Gaurav Juyal, an expert and designer of the highest caliber and creative skills. Further, we admire Mr. Gaurav Raj & Ms. Sonal Jain's high standards, persistence, and great ocean of knowledge (our course instructors). Learning from you all was a real pleasure for us. All of you had a lot of valuable insight and knowledge to share. Thanks a lot.