Patent ID: 7437859

Claim:
A method for producing objects, volumic elements, modules and furniture made from modules composed of individual structural elements comprising the steps of: providing a flat composite material of uniform thickness having a plurality of layers, cutting from the flat material a blank for the structural element, applying desired fold lines to the blank including angular end portions for forming an angled connecting site, cutting into the fold lines, folding the blank along the cut-in fold lines, thereby realizing outer edges, joining outer edges of the blank to form a closed folded thin-walled shell of a structural element having weight bearing capacity, and connecting two or more structural elements via a fixing nodal element, at the angled connecting site for joining two or more structural elements via the fixing nodal element, whereby the angled sites of each of the elements are meeting at a single point to form a corner, and wherein the nodal element has legs angularly oriented for inserting into the corresponding shell of the structural element such that the angled sites of each element are joined to form a single point and the inserted fixing nodal element is thus no longer visible.