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This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
This is a mobile museum built for a Canadian photographer, Gregory Colbert. In order to realize a nearly 4,000m2 building...
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
From winning the competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz came permission to build a temporary studio atop the...
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
Built for a paper manufacturer, the PAM houses facilities for the exhibition, development and promotion of paper. PAM is divided...
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
For the people who lost their homes due to the Gujarat Earthquake in 2001, the Paper Log House was redesigned...
A home for a three-generation family. The exterior walls are made of two layers of alternating corrugated FRP, and the...
The Paper Arch is made entirely of paper tubes, spanning over the sculpture garden of the MoMA in New York,...
The main design focus for this children’s art museum was to create an ideal facility made of a material familiar...
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
This community center and house of worship was built on the site of Takatori Church which had been destroyed in...
This is an attempt at using modern materials to preserve the adjustable interior exterior spatial continuity found in the old...
Conceptually parallel to the “Furniture House 1”, this gallery space contains a series of exhibition units that double as structure....
“GC Nagoya Building” is an office for a dental equipment corporation that contains office spaces, a seminar facility, and a...
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the height of the neighboring buildings and occupies half of the...
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
The site is at the top of a small hill that extends out from the sea, so the architecture itself...
The woven LVL structure that was proposed in the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” (2000) was also used in this Daycare...
The building features one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor. Enclosed rooms with determined purposes are placed...
In 1995, Shigeru Ban became involved in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) efforts to provide temporary housing...
The fashion runway was designed using seven paper-tubes of 13 meter length and 62 centimeter diameter. The models walked weaving...
The timber frame of the “Furniture House 1” system is replaced with steel studs to compose the Nine Square Grid...
“Wall-less House” sits on a sloped site with the floor slab at the rear of the mountain side, curving up...
Built as a one-month temporary furniture exhibition, the Nova Oshima Showroom followed the concept of the furniture house in applying...
The design criteria for the temporary housing for the Kobe Earthquake victims called for an inexpensive structure that could be...
The first permanent paper tube structure, the Paper House is organized on a 10 x 10 meter plan with 110...
In order to help the victims of the tsunami in 2004, 80 houses and a mosque were planned to recreate...
This boathouse, sheltering a historically significant canal boat, is made of a triangular-lattice paper-tube grid-shell structure, covered by corrugated polycarbonate...
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
This is one in a series of projects utilizing stacking glass shutters. The plan is organized from interior spaces and...
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
There is a day care center, a hospital and traditional homes near the site. Since the size of the gymnasium...
For the 924 m2 contemporary gallery, an existing structure was renovated. The structural flame was conserved as is, with all...
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
The theme for the 2000 Hannover Expo was sustainability, so a completely recyclable pavilion was designed. The pavilion took the...
The Furniture House 3 is a further development of the furniture unit system. The second story of the house arranges...
This permanent paper shelter was designed for a contractor of wooden houses. Because paper tubes cannot be bent, a segmented...
This is an apartment complex composed in a row-house format of individual three-story units. To realize the given condition of...
This is a multi-functional building combining a railroad station building with a town’s public facilities. From the train, the interior...
Furniture House 2 is the prototype of a two-story house employing furniture units as structural system. The furniture system used...
The rectangular site of the house is divided into five equal 15m × 5m rectangles. On two locations, a second...