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Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure

Frei Otto Laboratory

Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
The structure of this museum was dedicated to and designed in collaboration with professor Frei Otto. Three different sized domed...
Year: 2004
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Germany
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect

Paper Temporary Studio

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect
From winning the competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz came permission to build a temporary studio atop the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
House and housing
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure

Hanegi Forest Annex

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
In order to guarantee sufficient parking space at the ground level, the one story high steel frame structure of the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House Housing Complex
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Paper Dome

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Shutter House for a photographer

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: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House

86 Rue St Antoine

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
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Year: 2003
Status: Competition
Location: Lebanon
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility

AUB New School of Business

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
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 heights of the neighboring buildings yet occupies only half of...
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
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
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

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Built for a paper manufacturer, the PAM houses facilities for the exhibition, invention, and promotion of paper. As a museum,...
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: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure

Wickerwork House

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: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Housing
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House

Schwartz Residence

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
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
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: 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
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Housing
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Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Eda Housing

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
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Feature: Plywood Structure

Church in Roppongi

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
Works
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Year: 2002
Status: Competition
Location: Switzerland
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Rietberg 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
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 main intention for the design of the Picture Window House was to frame the panoramic view while maintaining the...
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 B

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
Works
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Year: 2001
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Memorial

Paper Memorial for World Trade Center

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
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: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Works
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Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure

Temporary Guggenheim Tokyo

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
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 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
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
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: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United Kingdom
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
Works
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Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United Kingdom
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition

Paper Pavilion for Kew Gardens

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
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure

Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum

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: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Plywood Structure
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‘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
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Japan Pavilion Expo 2000

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
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 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
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 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: 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
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: 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
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
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: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Works
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Year: 1997
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Big Roof Fukuroi

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