Paper tube architecture

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Emergency Shelters – Haiti

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince causing the greatest natural disaster in recent...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium

Paper Theater – Shanghai Expo 2010

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
The concept for this theatre design is based on one of the operational themes for the Japanese Industry Pavilion, “pulse”,...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale Pavilion

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
This temporary pavilion was the main event space for the popular biennale situated within the large open park at the...
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Tower

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
A temporary tower made of paper tubes designed for the London Design Festival. The aims of this project were to...
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education

Paper Temporary School / Chengdu Hualin Elementary School

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
This collaborative project between Japanese and Chinese universities involved the design and construction of paper-tube-structured temporary classrooms at the elementary...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Quinta Botanica

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Owned by an art and plant collector, Quinta Botanica overlooks the ocean from a cliff in Algarve, the southernmost region...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Tea House

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
The Paper tea house is made of square paper tubes. Walls are connected by a steel rod and the roof...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure

Paper Dome Taiwan

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure
Paper church had played the role as the community center opened to the multi-national neighborhood after the earthquake in Kobe....
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Singapore Biennale 2008 Pavilion

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
As an information center and press center for the 2006 Singapore Biennale, this is the first space frame structure to...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Paper Bridge

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
A bridge using paper tubes was constructed in Nîmes (France) next to a Roman aqueduct, Pont du Gard which is...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery

Nomadic Museum – Tokyo

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
The Nomadic Museum, a mobile exhibition hall dedicated to the photographs and video exhibitions by photographer Gregory Colbert, was built...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Vasarely Pavilion

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
This temporary architecture was built as an homage to the artist, Paul Cezanne, in commemoration of the Cezanne in Provence...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery

Nomadic Museum – Santa Monica

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
The voyage of the Nomadic Museum began in New York in 2005, and later traveled to Santa Monica near Los...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 3 – Fujisawa

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The new Paper Partition System was invented to improve the previous systems. This new system composed of columns and beams...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne – Boathouse

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
This boathouse, sheltering a historically significant canal boat, is made of a triangular-lattice paper-tube grid-shell structure, covered by corrugated polycarbonate...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 1

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect

Paper Temporary Studio

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
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: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Studio for an Architect
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium

Paper Dome

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater / Auditorium
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 / Auditorium
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Territories Partages Exposition

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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 Design / Installation
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education

Paper Studio

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
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: Education
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Japan Pavilion Expo 2000

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
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: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Arch for MOMA

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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 Design / Installation
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Paper Log House – Turkey

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Nemunoki Children’s Art Museum

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
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 / Gallery
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Paper Emergency Shelters for UNHCR

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial

Paper Dome

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Industrial
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
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Stage

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / 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: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship

Paper Church – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Place of Worship
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: Place of Worship
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Paper Log House – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Feature: Case Study House

Paper House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
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Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

MDS Gallery

Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / 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: Museum / Gallery
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Library of a poet

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
The paper tube truss of the East Gate of the Odawara Festival was again employed in the Library of a...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Paper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

East Gate of Odawara Festival

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
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: Culture and Leisure
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Odawara festival main hall

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
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: Culture and Leisure
Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Paper arbor

Year: 1989
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
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: Culture and Leisure
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Alvaro Aalto exhibition

Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition containing furniture and glass works of Alvar Aalto was...
Year: 1986
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation