Disaster Relief Design

Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Disaster Relief Project

Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
NPO Voluntary Architects Network (VAN) + Shigeru Ban Architects have started to set up Paper Partition System (PPS) and cardboard...
Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Sanctuary Naoetsu

Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London. Place: MUJI Naoetsu (Joetsu city in Niigata) Duration: February 13...
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: In progress 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: In progress 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Sanctuary OPAM

Year: In progress 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
January 13 – February 4, 2024 The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London.The inaugural exhibition took place...
Year: In progress 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Maui Paper Log House

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief Project for 2023 Hawaii-Maui Wildfires Dec.4th-Dec.7th 2023 Collaborators:Hawaii Off-GridUniversity of Hawaiʻi Maui CollegeSchool of Architecture University of Hawaiʻi...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2023
Location: Japan
Program: Museum / Gallery Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: 2023
Location: Japan
Program: Museum / Gallery Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Sanctuary Tokyo

Year: 2023
Location: Japan
Program: Museum / Gallery Exhibition Design / Installation
A simple partition system, created by Shigeru Ban, is completed by draping fabric over frames made from paper tubes. This...
Year: 2023
Location: Japan
Program: Museum / Gallery Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary

Prototype of Paper Temporary House for Korea　

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary
The prototype of Paper Temporary House for Korea is a simple structure with paper tubes as columns, paper honeycomb boards...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary
Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: Residential
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Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: Residential

Temporary housing in Marrakesh

Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: Residential
2023 Morocco Earthquake Disaster Relief Coordination : Fayçal Tiaïba / Laberinto and FenduqCooperation : National School of Architecture of Marrakech...
Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: Residential
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Sanctuary Simose

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
August 28 – September 3, 2023 The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London.The inaugural exhibition took place...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary

Styrofoam Housing System

Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary
Styrofoam Housing SystemVoluntary Architects’ Network(VAN) + Shigeru Ban Architects are planning to locally produce SHS(Styrofoam Housing Sytem), a panel-type housing...
Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary
Year: 2023
Location: England
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: 2023
Location: England
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Sanctuary

Year: 2023
Location: England
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Somerset House 2023 At the London Design Biennale, Ban presented the Paper Partition System (PPS), a partition system which transforms...
Year: 2023
Location: England
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health
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Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health

Mock Vaccination Center

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health
On February 2, 2021, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) demonstrated Paper Partition System at mock vaccination center in Komatsu, Ishikawa.Cooperated with:...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System2020 / Coronavirus pandemic

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
VAN has developed the“Paper Partition System”to be used in order to prevent spreading of virus transmitted through droplets.  March 14th,–...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System 4 / Typhoon Hagibis

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Typhoon Hagibis(2019) strike eastern Japan. Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) provided Paper Partition System and Honeycomb Board Beds in evacuation facilities...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System / Hokkaido Earthquake

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
The Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, which occurred on September 6, 2018, with a maximum seismic intensity of 7, caused significant...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 4 (PPS4) -West Japan Flooding-

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The heavy rains in western Japan (heavy rains of July 2018) were heavy rain disasters that occurred from June 28...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Education

Khumjung Secondary School

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Situated at the elevation of 3790m in Nepal, Khumjung School was first built by Mt. Everest’s first climber, Sir Edmund...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Kumamoto Wooden Prefabricated Temporary Housing

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake are a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 and 6.2, beneath Kumamoto City in the...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / 2016 Central Italy earthquake

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
In central Italy, three earthquakes have occurred in a row since August. The damage caused by the earthquake that occurred...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / Kumamoto Earthquake

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The Kumamoto earthquake was an earthquake with a seismic intensity of 7 observed on April 14 and 16, 2016, causing...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship

Nepal Gompa Project

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
The Nepal Earthquake in 2015 had left the historical gompa (temple) in Simigaon, Nepal completely destroyed. As one of the...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Onagawa Station

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
This new station has been moved 150m toward the mountain at an elevation 7m higher than before. This three-story facility...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Nepal House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
In order to respond to the earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25th, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) and Shigeru Ban...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Paper Temporary Shelter

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
This is the temporary shelter constructed at Daanbantayan, Cebu, Philippines, following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in November of 2013....
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education

Paper Nursery School

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
This temporary nursery school was constructed following the earthquake in Ya’an City, Sichuan, on April 20th, 2013. Lushan County in...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

LVMH Art Maison

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
The LVMH Art Maison is a 2-storey timber structure multipurpose center, with a total floor area of 291.0m². It not...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

PAPER PARTITION SYSTEM 4 (PPS4) -Landslide in Hiroshima-

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
On 20th August 2014, heavy rainfall struck Hiroshima City, Japan which caused huge landslides forcing over 1600 residents to evacuate...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship

Cardboard Cathedral

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake (magnitude 6.3) inflicted crippling damage on the Christchurch Cathedral which was the symbol of city....
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Paper Atelier – Onagawa

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
This atelier was designed to be donated to Onagawa town, Miyagi prefecture, by Japanese painter Hiroshi Senju. The site was...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure

Community Center – Onagawa

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
By stacking the container temporary housing on the site, wide building intervals were achieved, and the design for the community...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Onagawa Container House

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Since the 3.11 earthquake, we have visited more than 50 evacuation facilities and during that time, we heard the news...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / East Japan Earthquake

Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Iwate / Miyagi / Fukushima / Yamagata / Niigata / Nagano / Tochigi, JapanThe evacuees of the great Japan Earthquake...
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium

L’Aquila Temporary Concert Hall

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
L’Aquila Temporary Concert Hall opened on May 7th, 2011. The opening ceremony was held with the orchestra conducted by Tomomi...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Emergency Shelters – Haiti

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince causing the greatest natural disaster in recent...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Make It Right House

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Hurricane Katrina, which occurred in August 2005, caused enormous damage to the City of New Orleans. In December 2007, the...
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education

Paper Temporary School / Chengdu Hualin Elementary School

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
This collaborative project between Japanese and Chinese universities involved the design and construction of paper-tube-structured temporary classrooms at the elementary...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure

Paper Dome Taiwan

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure
Paper church had played the role as the community center opened to the multi-national neighborhood after the earthquake in Kobe....
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 3 – Fujisawa

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The new Paper Partition System was invented to improve the previous systems. This new system composed of columns and beams...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Kirinda House – Tsunami reconstruction project

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
In order to help the victims of the tsunami in 2004, 80 houses and a mosque were planned to recreate...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: Residential