A friend of mine, Sascha Pooch of Germany, ran a workshop at a Didaktic conference in 2011 where load-bearing was the goal. We had great fun! You can contact him through the didaktiks website (via his wife, Kristin)
http://www.origamididaktik.de/ there's also a photo of our team's entry http://www.origamididaktik.de/history/images2011.html Nick Robinson
