Chateau Chinon

It is a tessellation designed by Christiane Bettens, while the diagrams are in the book “Origami Tessellations" authored by Eric Gjerde.
In the book, it says that the tessellation is named after an architectural tilling (which inspired the tessellation) born in Chateau-Chinon, France.
It is the first tessellation in the book labelled as “intermediate”. Why intermediate? Well, besides the almost-confusing way to fold the various shapes in the model, you have to do an awful lot of creasings. If you make a simple mistake in making the creasings, your whole artwork will be like the rags used to wipe the asses of horses pulling the carts in old Spanish places.
But, if you do everything right, you will be rewarded with a nice tessellation consisted of irregular octagons and squares.


Once again in the rating of “if it is easy or hard” well I’ll give it a 7.
The posterior is also beautiful (though I do not have a picture). It’s one of those tessellations where you cannot decide which side are you going to display. But, meh, if the book says this is the front, then so be it.

Bird Base Tessellation

This is designed by Christiane Bettens, the same person who designed the Roman Church Floor Tilling Tessellation I have featured before.
The diagrams, one again, are found in Eric Gjerde’s Book “Origami Tessellations.”
In the book, it is labelled “Intermediate.” Well, it’s pretty easy, maybe if you did what I did (i used a grid of 16 X 16 units).
Apparently, you can expand the range of the tessellation. I just was not able to since I was very sleepy when I made this.
The tessellation is simple, but elegant. It is also pretty easy to fold. You just have to make a lot of creasings to achieve the best output.

Roman Church Floor Tilling Tessellation

This is designed by Christiane Bettens, and the instructions are found in the book “Origami Tessellations” authored by Eric Gjerde.
This has been one of the hardest tessellations I have succeeded with. the result is also very small compared to the size of the paper I have started with. This is one of the characteristics that makes the tessellation a bit cute :D
The story behind its creation is that Bettens visited a church in Rome, and the churches in Rome are VERY BEAUTIFUL. (I’m going to be an architecture student…) She got inspired by the floor designs of a church, so out from her creativity came this:

The tessellation really looks nice, and complicated. In the book, it is labelled as “Intermediate”, so do you think I will be able to do the advanced projects??? crap…. -_-