A skyscraper that can be folded up and moved to a disaster zone has won first prize in a competition to design the tall buildings of the future.
Inspired by origami and designed by a group of Polish architects, Skyshelter.zip could be packed into a box and slung underneath a helicopter, before being erected almost instantaneously by a “load-bearing” helium-filled balloon.
The design has just won the annual Evolo competition, run by an American architecture magazine, which calls for futuristic designs, but is nonetheless one of the more sober victors in recent years.
