Paper tube architecture

Year: 2008,
Status: Completed,
Location: Taiwan,
Type: Reconstruction,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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Year: 2008,
Status: Completed,
Location: Taiwan,
Type: Reconstruction,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Dome Taiwan

Year: 2008,
Status: Completed,
Location: Taiwan,
Type: Reconstruction,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: Singapore,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Paper tube architecture
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Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: Singapore,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Singapore Biennale 2008 Pavilion

Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: Singapore,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2007,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Transport and Infrastructure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Transport and Infrastructure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Bridge

Year: 2007,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Transport and Infrastructure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2007,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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Year: 2007,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Nomadic Museum – Tokyo

Year: 2007,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Paper tube architecture
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Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Vasarely Pavilion

Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Nomadic Museum – Santa Monica

Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper partition system 3 – Fujisawa

Year: 2006,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2005,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2005,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

Year: 2005,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2005,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Container Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2005,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Container Structure,

Nomadic Museum

Year: 2005,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Container Structure,
Built on the Manhattan’s historic Pier 57 on the Hudson River, the Nomadic Museum is a traveling temporary museum for...
Year: 2005,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Container Structure,
Year: 2011,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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Year: 2011,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Partition System / East Japan Earthquake

Year: 2011,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Iwate / Miyagi / Fukushima / Yamagata / Niigata / Nagano / Tochigi, JapanThe evacuees of the great Japan Earthquake...
Year: 2011,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne – Boathouse

Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper partition system 1

Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Product Design,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Studio for an Architect,

Paper Temporary Studio

Year: 2004,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Studio for an Architect,
Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: Holland,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Theater / Auditorium,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: Holland,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Theater / Auditorium,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Dome

Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: Holland,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Theater / Auditorium,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Territories Partages Exposition

Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: France,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Education,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Education,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Studio

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

Japan Pavilion Expo 2000

Year: 2000,
Status: Completed,
Location: Germany,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2000,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Arch for MOMA

Year: 2000,
Status: Completed,
Location: United States,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2000,
Status: Completed,
Location: Turkey,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000,
Status: Completed,
Location: Turkey,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

PAPER LOG HOUSE – TURKEY

Year: 2000,
Status: Completed,
Location: Turkey,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1999,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Nemunoki Children’s Art Museum

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

Paper Emergency Shelters for UNHCR

Year: 1999,
Status: Completed,
Location: Rwanda,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1998,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Industrial,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1998,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Industrial,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Dome

Year: 1998,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Industrial,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1997,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1997,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Stage

Year: 1997,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1995,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Place of Worship,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Place of Worship,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Church – Kobe

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

Paper Log House – Kobe

Year: 1995,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1995,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Case Study House,
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Case Study House,

Paper House

Year: 1995,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Feature: Case Study House,
Year: 1994,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1994,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

MDS Gallery

Year: 1994,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Museum / Gallery,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1991,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1991,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Library of a poet

Year: 1991,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1990,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Paper tube architecture
·
Year: 1990,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

East Gate of Odawara Festival

Year: 1990,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1990,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Paper tube architecture
·
Year: 1990,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Odawara festival main hall

Year: 1990,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 1989,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Paper tube architecture
·
Year: 1989,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper arbor

Year: 1989,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
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,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,