Portable architecture is guided by spatial use and functional requirements. It adopts integrated holistic design, industrialized technical approaches, and prefabricated construction methods, allowing buildings to be relocated between different sites. In recent years, with its distinctive flexibility, adaptability, ease of installation, and low dependence on specific locations, portable architecture has played an increasingly prominent role in ordinary civil building sectors such as housing, cultural tourism, exhibitions, and commerce. It has also demonstrated significant development potential in special environments, military applications, and public emergency response and rescue.

By applying rigid origami technology, modular, portable, and foldable architectural prototypes can be designed with features such as rapid deployment, light weight, ease of transport, and structural stability. Through interdisciplinary integration, this research focuses on the design and development of foldable and deployable portable architecture based on “single-degree-of-freedom rigid thick-panel folding” technology, exploring new methods for compressing and expanding architectural space. This concept fully integrates the advantages of transformable architecture and kinetic architecture, while also offering strong potential for modular installation and expansion. It meets the needs of contemporary small-scale architectural development and opens up a new field in transformable architectural design.