Disaster Relief Design

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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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
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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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
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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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
Disaster Relief DesignHousing
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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
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 1

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Paper Log House – Turkey

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Constructed in coordination with a local volunteer organization, the Paper Log Houses aimed to alleviate the homelessness following the earthquake...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Paper Emergency Shelters for UNHCR

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
In 1995, Shigeru Ban became involved in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) efforts to provide temporary housing...
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship

Paper Church – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
This community center and house of worship was built on the site of Takatori Church which had been destroyed in...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Paper Log House – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The design criteria for the temporary housing for the Kobe Earthquake victims called for an inexpensive structure that could be...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential