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Conceptually parallel to the Furniture House, this gallery space contains a series of exhibition units that double as structure. Each...
Escalators spiral around the oval Veloqx building housing restaurants, bars and cafes at all floors, offering 360 degree panoramic views...
The GC Nagoya Building for a dental equipment corporation contains ofzfice a seminar facility, and showroom, and is intended to...
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
From winning the competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz came permission to build a temporary studio atop the...
Within the historical “Marais” district of Paris, this apartment building sits on a narrow site flanking an existing fire wall....
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the heights of the neighboring buildings yet occupies only half of...
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
As an initial response to the small buildings surrounding the site, which include houses as well as a kindergarten and...
The design of this Lutheran church strived to remain humble in response to the religious doctrine as well as the...
For the 924-square-meter contemporary gallery, an existing structure  was renovated. A similar transformation occurs on its south facade. This entire...
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
Four freely movable room-boxes on casters in one unique two-storey high room allow three generations of one family to flexibly...
The building‘s structure is made of one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor, allowing open spaces for...
The three-storied glass cube is connected at three corners to a full height ivy screen, which functions as the primary...
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...
This boathouse, sheltering a historically significant canal boat, is made of a triangular-lattice paper-tube grid-shell structure, covered by corrugated polycarbonate...
This 18 storey condominium tower is composed of two rows of reinforced concrete structure of alternating double-height concrete cells, creating...
The design for the renovation and expansion of the Rose Art Museum strives to integrate the new and renovated programs...
The structure of this museum was dedicated to and designed in collaboration with professor Frei Otto. Three different sized domed...
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
Responding to the scale of the neighboring buildings, the New School of Business is composed of a cluster of small...
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
This weekend house is composed of a glass box surmounted by a large woven plywood dome. Four structural plywood boards...
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
For this extension of the Rietberg Museum, designated as a cultural heritage, limited space was assigned in the park surrounding...
This temporary building using paper tubes was a voluntary proposal for a memorial at the World Trade Center site after...
The main space of the Daycare Center is created with LVL wood, the same as the roof material of the...
For this conservation activity centre commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, a lightweight, energy autonomous paper pavilion was designed in...
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...
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
Running parallel to the streets on the east and west, the two wings of the GC building are united by...
The roof of this boomerang house swoops through the scattered trees, floating in the landscape like an airplane wing in...
Belonging to a series of houses with stacking shutters, the Shutter House for a Photographer is organized on a checkered...
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, invention, and promotion of paper. As a museum,...
Inspired by the location’s unique topography, the abundance of trees and rocks on the site, and the surrounding New England...
The main intention for the design of the Picture Window House was to frame the panoramic view while maintaining the...
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
After the “Hannover Expo Japan Pavilion” the design for the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” was the second collaboration with Professor...
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...
A narrow site is divided lengthwise into building and courtyard to create the Ivy Structure house. The construction method makes...