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:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
Belonging to a series of houses with stacking shutters, the Shutter House for a Photographer is organized on a checkered...
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
House
·
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
House
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
House
Within the historical “Marais” district of Paris, this apartment building sits on a narrow site flanking an existing fire wall....
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
House
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
Lebanon
Type:
New-built
Program:
Higher Educational Facility
·
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
Lebanon
Type:
New-built
Program:
Higher Educational Facility
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
Lebanon
Type:
New-built
Program:
Higher Educational Facility
Responding to the scale of the neighboring buildings, the New School of Business is composed of a cluster of small...
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Location:
Lebanon
Type:
New-built
Program:
Higher Educational Facility
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
·
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:
House
Feature:
Glass Shutter Façade
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the heights of the neighboring buildings yet occupies only half of...
As a temporary structure of at most 10 years was requested, recyclable and reusable materials were used for the building....
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
This project is based on the idea that New York should continue growing incrementally – as it always has –...
Year:
2003
Status:
Competition
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Plywood Structure
This weekend house is composed of a glass box surmounted by a large woven plywood dome. Four structural plywood boards...
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Inspired by the location’s unique topography, the abundance of trees and rocks on the site, and the surrounding New England...
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Gymnasium
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Gymnasium
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Gymnasium
Feature:
Plywood Structure
As an initial response to the small buildings surrounding the site, which include houses as well as a kindergarten and...
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Situated next to a train station, the Eda housing complex incorporates a commercial area. To take in the flow of...
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Feature:
Plywood Structure
The design of this Lutheran church strived to remain humble in response to the religious doctrine as well as the...
Year:
2002
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Switzerland
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Switzerland
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Switzerland
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
For this extension of the Rietberg Museum, designated as a cultural heritage, limited space was assigned in the park surrounding...
Year:
2002
Status:
Competition
Location:
Switzerland
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
·
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Picture Window House
The main intention for the design of the Picture Window House was to frame the panoramic view while maintaining the...
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
·
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
For the 924-square-meter contemporary gallery, an existing structure was renovated. A similar transformation occurs on its south facade. This entire...
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Extension / Renovation
Program:
Museum
Year:
2001
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Memorial
Year:
2001
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Memorial
This temporary building using paper tubes was a voluntary proposal for a memorial at the World Trade Center site after...
Year:
2001
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Memorial
Year:
2001
Location:
India
Program:
Temporary Housing
·
Year:
2001
Location:
India
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
2001
Location:
India
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
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
·
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
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:
Nursery School
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Nursery School
Feature:
Plywood Structure
The main space of the Daycare Center is created with LVL wood, the same as the roof material of the...
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
·
Year:
2001
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study 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:
2000
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
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Four freely movable room-boxes on casters in one unique two-storey high room allow three generations of one family to flexibly...
Year:
2000
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
New-built
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2000
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
New-built
Program:
Exhibition
For this conservation activity centre commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, a lightweight, energy autonomous paper pavilion was designed in...
Year:
2000
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
New-built
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2000
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Plywood Structure
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
2000
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Plywood Structure
After the “Hannover Expo Japan Pavilion” the design for the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” was the second collaboration with Professor...
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Feature:
Wooden Fire Protection
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Feature:
Wooden Fire Protection
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
Feature:
Wooden Fire Protection
The building‘s structure is made of one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor, allowing open spaces for...
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
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
The theme for the 2000 Hannover Expo was sustainability, so a completely recyclable pavilion was designed. The pavilion took the...
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
The Paper Arch is made entirely of paper tubes, spanning over the sculpture garden of the MoMA in New York,...
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
The three-storied glass cube is connected at three corners to a full height ivy screen, which functions as the primary...
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Turkey
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Turkey
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
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:
2000
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Toilet paper is rolled around a square tube instead of the typical round toilet paper tube. The square core makes...
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Year:
1999
Status:
Completed
Location:
Rwanda
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing
·
Year:
1999
Status:
Completed
Location:
Rwanda
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing
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
·
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House
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...
A narrow site is divided lengthwise into building and courtyard to create the Ivy Structure house. The construction method makes...
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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:
Industrial
Office and Headquarters
·
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Industrial
Office and Headquarters
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Industrial
Office and Headquarters
This permanent paper shelter was designed for a contractor of wooden houses. Because paper tubes cannot be bent, a segmented...
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Industrial
Office and Headquarters
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Feature:
Plywood Structure
The 4 paper tube legs of the stool can be stored in the bent plywood seat....
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Case Study House
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Feature:
Case Study House
Another development of the furniture house, the Nine-Square Grid House replaced the wood frames of the furniture units with steel....
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Inherently a three-story row-house complex, the Hanegi Forest succeeded in preserving every existing tree on the site. To ensure that...
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Housing Complex
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
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:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Commercial Facility
Year:
1997
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Commercial Facility
The Big Roof unifies several leisure programs and creates intermediate spaces between inside and outside. All rooms open up to...
Year:
1997
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Commercial Facility
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:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Case Study House
The Wall-less House sits on a mountain slope with the floor sloping upward to meet the roof, naturally absorbing the...
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
This project was started from 1996 and had continued for 8 years. Dental exhibitions took place every 2 months where...
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
·
Year:
1996
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
House
Feature:
Furniture House
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...
