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Works

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

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
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: 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
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
The first permanent paper tube structure, the Paper House is organized on a 10 x 10 meter plan with 110...
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 from a paper tube structure. All vertical loads are carried by the paper tubes and...
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
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Paper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

East Gate of Odawara Festival

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Because building codes did not require official permits for the construction of gates, the East Gate of the Odawara Festival...
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Odawara festival main hall

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
To build a multipurpose hall for Odawara’s 50th anniversary, the city’s mayor requested timber architecture. Paper tubes were suggested instead...
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper arbor

Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Created for the 1989 Design Expo, the Paper Arbor is comprised of 48 water-proofed paper tubes that fit into a...
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Works
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Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Asia club pavillon

Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
For the 1989 Hiroshima Expo themed “Oceans and Islands” Asia Club requested a pavilion designed in an Asian style. A...
Year: 1989
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Zanotta exhibition

Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
A completely recyclable exhibition system was designed using paper tube walls and square paper tube frames with recycled paper honeycomb...
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect

Three Walls

Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
In a crowded commercial area, a u-shaped wall (blue) is inserted to cut out the territory of the building. The...
Year: 1988
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Year: 1988
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Harbor Facility
Works
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Year: 1988
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Harbor Facility

Osaka shipyard redevelopment plan

Year: 1988
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Harbor Facility
The shipyards of the Osaka Harbour was at the heart of this redevelopment project. Rather than first designing a town,...
Year: 1988
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Harbor Facility