This Origami-Inspired Office Design Expands, Contracts, And Changes Its Shape

Want more room? Not a problem. Using drones and inflatable balloon-type devices, a new kind of transformable architecture could create buildings that morph to meet our needs.

Right now, a building might be considered "smart" if it can autonomously adjust its internal systems, like the lighting or, say, the air conditioning above a particular employee's desk. But the smart buildings of the future may use sensors to control architecture itself. A new prototype from students at Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia shows how a shape-shifting building might work.

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