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We l com e to O ru gami ORUGAMI IS A SPECIAL TREE TENT TO EXPERIENCE NATURE IN AN UNIQUE WAY. In recent years we have seen a growing trend in the world of entertainment that looks for special experiences. Generally, these experiences take place in natural surroundings. This is where the “Glamping”, or “glamousous camping” phenomenon arises with unique, special accomodation in priviledged spots. Among other lodging models, we can see that tree houses attracts tourists specially. Beyond the object itself, the “tree house” belongs to our collective imagination since it represents childhood fantasies that we treasure. We feel very attracted to them, because it holds some underlining wishes, like climbing and leaving the ground to rise into the tree’s canopy. This shelter is the refuge where no one can find you but from where you can gaze at the surrounding nature from a great point of view.
Orugami hanging among the trees
Orugami is a new generation of tree houses, product of innovative design and techniques and eco-friendly guidelines. It is environmentally friendly and very versatile. It is also detachable and mobile, you can hang it from several points, trees or other resistant structures, natural or man-made.
Installation is manual and leaves no footprint on the environment.
Orugami is a design piece that integrates perfectly in natural environments, and has many applications to make your way of living nature a much greater experience. It can be a bird watch hide, a game for little climbers or just a room to rest at tea time. Orugami may be all you can imagine. Tell us your lodging dream and we´ll find a way to make it real.
Inside and outside Orugami
Whom is it adressed to ORUGAMI IS FOR THOSE DREAMERS WHO LONG FOR A TREEHOUSE. IT IS ALSO FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND PROFESSIONALS DEVOTED TO NATURE, THAT WISH TO GO A STEP FURTHER IN THEIR OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES. This product is addressed to companies, institutions or individuals with personal or professional activities linked to nature: adventure parks, rural tourism, ecolodges, glamping, or natural parks where it can be used as a 360º lookout, a bird hide, a place from where spot animals or even shoot a documentary. Orugami fits perfectly in natural environment, both in wild and touristic ones. It can provide more value to them and doesn´t leave any footprint behind. It is an innovative object, who works as an eye-catcher when it glooms at night and enables a wide range of experiences in nature for all those who look for an unusual and fascinating journey.
Orugami is also a powerful educational tool. It helps develop psychomotricity, spatial sense, creativity, self- esteem and autonomy, among other skills. But above all, they love it, because it connects with their own fantasy worlds.
Advantages: -Versatile, it works for multiple purposes. It admits some dimension and features variations, it has different complements and can respond to different needs. -Installation can be temporary or permanent, and needs no construction works. -It is completely detachable and portable and leaves no footprint behind. It is perfect for natural protected areas. -Available on sell and for rental. Finally, you don’t have to care about anything, we manage all the process: project, installation, removal, and maintenance.
What is it and how you use it ORUGAMI IS AN INSPIRING HANGING MICROARCHITECTURE. A UNIQUE AND FUN OPEN AIR ROOM DESIGNED TO HOLD THE MOST SPECIAL EXPERIENCES.
below the roof, where you can lay down in a net and have the sensation of floating above everyone on the ground. You can also go out by the roof entrance, standing on top of it.
Is it a flying shelter, a livable lantern, a giant fabric nest? Orugami is definitely a fascinating living space, made for children and adult entertainment and joy.
Our flying shelter can be installed quite high, from 5 metres from the ground up to 30 or more. In those cases, users must wear safety harness to access the structure. Orugami can be installed alone, or in a collective installation, or in even in a zip wire circuit. In this way we can create a kind of flying village, with different devices connected by net footbridges, to increase the floating experience.
Orugami has an organic and essential design, the form is the result of stress caused by its hanging position in combination with functional needs. It has been ergonomically designed, so that the space inside and their flexible materials adapts to human body. Interior space is developed in three different levels. The first volume (on the bottom) shaped as an inverted cone, helps you climbing inside. Then you reach the intermediate level, in which you can stand and enjoy a 360º view or lay down and relax. There is another level
With Orugami, you’ll experience heights with safety and comfort, you’ll be able to enjoy privileged views and taste the experience of living in the tree canopy and disconnect from daily issues. Near the ground, it can be a child playground, or a floating tree house to share good moments with friends or to rest in summer time.
Orugami Flying lodge is a Glamping device who offers really new possibilities in Nature Tourism
O rugami Flying Lo dge IT’S THE ONE FOR YOU TO SLEEP HANGING FROM THE TREES. ENABLES TO LIVE AN UNUSUAL CONNECTION WITH NATURE WITHOUT HAVING TO SACRIFICE COMFORT. In the firs level we find the space for the double bed, the upper space is useful for stocking your things, even is possible for the kids to sleep over your head, the´ll love it! You enter the device by a frontal acess, an the is also a inside window. You have 360º view from the observatory when standing, and you can close any of those holes with different fabric layers depending if you want intimacy, rain, sun or mosquito protection. The space below, an inverted cone, is useful for stoking your wet boots, your backpack..
You can make a whole glamping project from the Orugamis when putting them in groups. An entire complex installed in a few days, eco friendly, with no footprint after disassembling. Be the first one to offer this new concept with this really unique and innovative devices. Think about all the possibilities it can offer to your tourism business; you can have a lodge in the most gorgeous and protected areas and change its location whenever you need.
General dimensions: Diameter lower level: 2.6 m Diameter upper level: 3.2 m Minimum height for installation: 5m
O rugami Terra
O rugami Terra Wo o d
Terra is the Orugami that rests in the ground in two versions: the hammock and the Wood. Both versions they are modular so it is always possible to make them bigger or smaller depending on the situation. It is the perfect Orugami for those that prefer to keep their feet on the ground.
THE ORUGAMI TO SLEEP CONNECTED WITHNATURE WHO OFFERS ALL THE COMFORT YOU NEED.
Orugami Terra in a public exposition in the Matadero de Madrid, the citys largest cultural center. It worked like a little fun park for kids while their parent went to the exposition.
It’s the most comfortable Orugami, resting on the ground your feet on a woof floor, with a double bed and extra space for daytime. You can add hammocks.
O rugami Terra Hammo ck THE MOST PLAYFUL ORUGAMI, AND IN SUMMER NIGHTS, MAYBE THE BEST OPTION TO SLEEP FRESH HANGING FROM HAMMOCKS. In Orugami Terra Wood, ground, wall and ceiling are the same thing, made of tense, flexible fabric . Inside, there are hanging hammocks, perfect for sleeping and relaxing, specially on those hot summer nights.
It is modular, so it may get bigger just by adding more pieces. It is detachable , portable, easy to install and leaves no trace in the environment after uninstallation. It takes up very little space so it is easy to stock and to send. Its design and materials makes it very resistant to both weather and kid’s strong playful action.
Inside Orugami Flying Shelter
Technic al features Orugami has been designed with specific software for fabric membrane constructions and with the highest quality certified materials. These are resistant to outdoor conditions, and long lasting.
Materials:
Technic high tensile polyester PVC coated fabric, construction steel detachable rings, elevation and climbing wires and straps, technical anchoring.
Sustainability:
Orugami’s construction system is sustainable and eco-efficient: the construction materials used are minimal and so is the amount of rigid structure. Installation can be done easily by hand, without any machine nor construction work. Once unistalled, it doesn’t leave any trace in the environment. Moreover, the materials used are long lasting and can be reused for non structural needs and recycled afterwards.
Who we are We are a team made of architects with some years working in the field of light and fabric membrane structures. We have achieved different projects in Spain and Latin America, within a technology transfer program of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Therefore we have working facilities in both sites. Orugami was finalist in the 10th UPM startup awards in 2013. The project has also been selected by the Central de Dise単o of Madrid to participate in the 2014 and 2015 Producto Fresco exhibition, devoted to the newest and most influent design products in Madrid. We have been also published in several specialized magazines: in Spain, in NEO2 and ROOM, specialized in design, ESPAZIO, specialized in tensile membrane architecture, in Israel, in Nisha magazine, amongst others.
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