All

Works

Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
·
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Ogijima Pavilion

Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
This project was realized as a collaboration with artist Oscar Oiwa for the Setouchi Triennale 2022. The site is located...
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel

ZENBO SEINEI

Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
This is a plan of an accommodation facility where guests can experience“zazen” on a small, lush site on Awaji Island....
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel

Shishi-iwa House No.2

Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Second project for “Shishi-iwa House” in Karuizawa. The simple two-story rectangular plan evolved from the very tight rectangular site. The...
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health
Disaster Relief Design
·
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: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
·
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial

Farmer’s Restaurant

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
The restaurant is built in the midst of a large natural field and serves fresh vegetables from there. The thatched...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Works
·
Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

New Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library

Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
In order to form an east-west and north-south axis in front of Higashi-Shizuoka Station, a high-rise library was planned in...
Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Finland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Timber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Finland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

JUURET / ROOTS – STORA ENSO HQ

Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Finland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
The name “JUURET”, meaning ROOTS in Finnish language suggests the concept of this building in many ways. The building inherits...
Year: 2021
Status: Competition
Location: Finland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential
House and housingWorks
·
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential

Cast Iron House

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential
The project consists of a gut renovation of an existing landmarked commercial building, renowned for its ornate cast iron façade,...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Tamadic Nagoya

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Due to Japan’s excessive regulations against timber structures, it is impossible to build a “pure” mid-rise timber structure, so a...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel

HAESLEY HAMLET / Condominium

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel
Hamlet is a four-building complex that serves as an executive training center and accommodation built next to the Haesley Nine...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel
Year: 2020
Status: Unbuilt Competition
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Timber and bamboo structuresWorks
·
Year: 2020
Status: Unbuilt Competition
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Education

University of Arkansas Center for Design & Materials Innovation

Year: 2020
Status: Unbuilt Competition
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Situated on a prominent urban site, the Center’s simple, classic building forms serve to reflect the programmatic use of the...
Year: 2020
Status: Unbuilt Competition
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
·
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: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Culture and Leisure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
·
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Culture and Leisure

hagukumu KOHAN

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Culture and Leisure
A grid was found to accommodate storage, display shelves, lighting, and air conditioning for the cafe’s needs, and the entire...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel

Former Art Biotop – Suite Villa

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Villa-type accommodation facility planned in a vast forest of about 16,000m². With taking advantage of the shape of the land,...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
·
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel
Feature: Plywood Structure

Farmer’s Hut

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Hotel
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure Residential
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
·
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure Residential

Full House

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure Residential
This small book shop / café space, also used as community space for local residents and students, is an extension...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Culture and Leisure Residential
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential

Bookshelf House

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential
A new living room is added to a cottage at the foot of Yatsugatake. On the gable side of the...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Residential
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
·
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Tainan Art Museum

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
This art museum explores a building typology where the art museum and the activities of the park are not separate,...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
·
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters

SWATCH OMEGA / Omega Factory

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters
Located in Biel/Bienne, the heart of Swiss watch making, The campus involves two brands, namely Omega and Swatch, clearly distinguishes...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Works
·
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Temporary pavillon for Notre-Dame de Paris

Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Shortly after the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris occurred on 15th of April, 2019, we proposed a temporary structure in...
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Education
Timber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Education

Renovation project of the former architecture school in Nanterre

Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Education
This is a proposal for renovating the former architecture school in Nanterre in the suburb of Paris. The architecture of...
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Education
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Health Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Health Hotel

Kur Park Nagayu

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Health Hotel
This Kurhaus consists of hot spring facility with a split-level double height space topped with a large roof structure composed...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Health Hotel
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
·
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel

Shishi-iwa House

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
When visiting the site in Karuizawa, there was a forest unique to Karuizawa where beautiful trees grow thick. The first...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
·
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: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
·
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial

Paper Green House Les Tonnelles

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
This greenhouse is composed of arches made from paper tubes connected by metal joints. on the exterior, a ready-made greenhouse...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
·
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education

Keio University SBC Paper Studio

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
This dome is a part of Keio University‘s SBC project (Student-Build Campus). Since the construction work by students was required,...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education