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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Territories Partages Exposition

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housing
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Glass Shutter House

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the height of the neighboring buildings and occupies half of the...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier

Paper Studio

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
This paper tube arch structure built by the students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University SFC, was designed as...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Paper Art Museum PAM A

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Built for a paper manufacturer, the PAM houses facilities for the exhibition, development and promotion of paper. PAM is divided...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Bamboo Roof

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure

Atsushi Imai Memorial Gymnasium

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
There is a day care center, a hospital and traditional homes near the site. Since the size of the gymnasium...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Bamboo Furniture House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
A “hotel villa” built on a mountainside with a view of the Great Wall of China. The design follows the...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

Picture Window House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
The site is at the top of a small hill that extends out from the sea, so the architecture itself...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Paper Art Museum PAM B

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
For the 924 m2 contemporary gallery, an existing structure was renovated. The structural flame was conserved as is, with all...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House

Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
For the people who lost their homes due to the Gujarat Earthquake in 2001, the Paper Log House was redesigned...
Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure

Imai Hospital Daycare Center

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
The woven LVL structure that was proposed in the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” (2000) was also used in this Daycare...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Veneer Grid Roof House

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Naked House

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
A home for a three-generation family. The exterior walls are made of two layers of alternating corrugated FRP, and the...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection

GC Osaka Building

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
The building features one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor. Enclosed rooms with determined purposes are placed...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Japan Pavilion Expo 2000 Hannover

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The year 2000 Hannover Expo was planned around the theme of environmental issues. However, contrary to the main theme, each...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper Arch for MoMA

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The grid-shell structure made of paper tubes for the Japanese Pavilion at the Hannover Expo achieved overall rigidity by forming...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House – Turkey

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
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: Temporary Housing
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Nemunoki Children’s Art Museum

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
The main design focus for this children’s art museum was to create an ideal facility made of a material familiar...
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Emergency Shelters for UNHCR

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
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: Temporary Housing
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 3

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
The Furniture House 3 is a further development of the furniture unit system. The second story of the house arranges...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Issey Miyake Paris Collection

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The fashion runway was designed using seven paper-tubes of 13 meter length and 62 centimeter diameter. The models walked weaving...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Paper Dome

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
This permanent paper tube structure shelter was designed for a timber specialty contractor so they could work even in snowy...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Nine Square Grid House

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The timber frame of the “Furniture House 1” system is replaced with steel studs to compose the Nine Square Grid...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Hanegi Forest

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
This is an apartment complex composed in a row-house format of individual three-story units. To realize the given condition of...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Paper Stage

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Wall-Less House

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
“Wall-less House” sits on a sloped site with the floor slab at the rear of the mountain side, curving up...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station

JR Tazawako Station

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station
This is a multi-functional building combining a railroad station building with a town’s public facilities. From the train, the interior...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Nova Oshima Temporary Showroom

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Built as a one-month temporary furniture exhibition, the Nova Oshima Showroom followed the concept of the furniture house in applying...
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 2

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Furniture House 2 is the prototype of a two-story house employing furniture units as structural system. The furniture system used...
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility

Paper Church – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
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: Religious Facility
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
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: Temporary Housing
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

2/5 House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The rectangular site of the house is divided into five equal 15m × 5m rectangles. On two locations, a second...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Curtain Wall House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
This is an attempt at using modern materials to preserve the adjustable interior exterior spatial continuity found in the old...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Paper House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
This is the first built paper tube project to receive ministry certification as a structural building material. 110 paper tubes...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Furniture House 1

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
By making factory built modularized furniture units (closets and bookshelves) that are 90cm wide and 2.4m high that can bear...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery

MDS Gallery

Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery
This is a gallery made of paper. Vertical loads were carried completely by the paper tube columns, but by making...
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

House of Double-Roof

Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Built in a region with heavy snowfall, this second case study house sought to avoid increasing the member sizes of...
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory

Dengyosha Factory at Hamura

Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Budget constraints, a tight schedule, and the requirement to accommodate heavy machinery yielded a design with pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete slabs...
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store

Complex by the Railroad

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
A simple rectangular volume containing a reinforced concrete structure shop, office, and residence has been inserted into an irregular pentagonal...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
House and housing
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Housing at Shakuji Park

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Instead of forming each unit by lining up parallel walls, all 9 walls were arranged in an S-shape configuration. Additionally,...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingHouses
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

PC Pile House

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The sloping site was extremely steep in some locations, even greater than 45 degrees, and there was no extra budget...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

I House

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Anticipating future housing development in the area, the house’s square-shaped plan was rotated 45 degrees from the site to maintain...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House