Timber and bamboo structures

Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Office and Headquarters
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Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Office and Headquarters

Setagaya City Hall

Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Office and Headquarters
This project is for the rebuilding of the Setagaya City Hall and Civic Hall originally designed by Kunio Maekawa. How...
Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
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Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Kiso Town Hall and Disaster Prevention Center

Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
On the long site stretched from north to south along the JR Chuo West Line, the function of the government...
Year: 2017
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: House
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: House

Mokuzai / Bouscat

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: House
The purpose of this project is to construct a symbolic building for the Saint-Jean-Belcier BIA neighbourhood Bordeaux-Euratlantique. The concept consists...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Vin Sante + N house

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
In Japan, the level of timber engineers and fabricators, and the development of timber engineering is far behind Europe, especially...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2016
Status: Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
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Year: 2016
Status: Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation

Bridge Hotel Paris

Year: 2016
Status: Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
This project is made up of two separate buildings but are designed to respond to each other, to form a...
Year: 2016
Status: Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Kumamoto Wooden Prefabricated Temporary Housing

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake are a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 and 6.2, beneath Kumamoto City in the...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility

Nepal Gompa Project

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
The Nepal Earthquake in 2015 had left the historical gompa (temple) in Simigaon, Nepal completely destroyed. As one of the...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Airport
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Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Airport

Long Thanh International Airport

Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Airport
The Long Thanh International Airport will be Vietnam’s iconic portal to the world and this terminal will represent the future...
Year: 2016
Status: Competition
Location: Vietnam
Type: New-built
Program: Airport
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

House of Light and Shadow

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
The site is a typical residential area and this house was designed to experience the seasonal changes and the passage...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station

Onagawa Station

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
This new station has been moved 150m toward the mountain at an elevation 7m higher than before. This three-story facility...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Oita Prefectural Art Museum

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
The museum is a simple boxed shape so it could be integrated with the surrounding urban context of the center...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Nepal House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House
In order to respond to the earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25th, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) and Shigeru Ban...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Solid Cedar House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Low cost 120mm square cedar timber is stacked, similar to a log house. These walls are unified vertically by steel...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Aspen Art Museum

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
This contemporary art museum is located in downtown Aspen, Colorado, which is famous for its ski resorts. To harmonize with...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
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Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Le Monde Headquarters

Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
A design competition for the new headquarters for the French media company, Le Monde. Configuration of the building was driven...
Year: 2014
Status: Competition Unbuilt
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club

Skolkovo Golf Club House

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club
This club house is located within a golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus in Moscow. As a timber structure in...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Calypso Restaurant and Lounge

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The design is influenced by the contextual reference of the traditional form of the row house style of the nearby...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Villa at Sengokubara

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
This two-story timber structure residence is situated on a site with a narrow street front and a broader clearing deeper...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Tamedia New Office Building

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
One of the main features of this project is a seven story rigid frame structural system, designed entirely in timber,...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

House Vision Furniture House

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Instead of being supported by conventional columns and walls, this “Furniture House” is supported structurally by the furniture itself, creating...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store

T-2000 Project

Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
To create a comfortable and homely environment, a timber structure, “house of furniture” is proposed. By providing the required shelving...
Year: 2012
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Year: 2012
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Indonesia
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2012
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Indonesia
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation

Ristia Resort

Year: 2012
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Indonesia
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
The site for this resort is set in a beautiful quiet rural area surrounded by rice fields, hillsides, and a...
Year: 2012
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Indonesia
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure

Community Center – Onagawa

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
By stacking the container temporary housing on the site, wide building intervals were achieved, and the design for the community...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Bridge
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Bridge

Bamboo bridge at the great wall

Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Bridge
Eco-Tourism Development Of Huanghua ChengNumerous slender laminated bamboo elements, bundled at the base and gradually branching out at the top,...
Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: Bridge
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant

Kushinoya

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Located in the Daimaru department store in Osaka Station. The façade is veiled in an ethereal white string curtain that...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Belgium
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Belgium
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

GC Europe Headquarters

Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Belgium
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
This office building for GC EUROPE headquarters was proposed in Leuven, Belgium. Given that the program requested that all office...
Year: 2011
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Belgium
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Mexico
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Mexico
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Environmental Sciences Museum

Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Mexico
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
One unifying timber roof encompasses all the galleries like the sky and clouds that covers our environment and completes the...
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Mexico
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Taschen Frankfurt Bookfair Booth

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The roof, wall and floor were made of the same geometry, hexagon and triangle, which were used for the timber...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2010
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2010
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Jiufen Zao Xiang Cheng Shi

Year: 2010
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
To capture the surrounding scenery for all of the visiting guests, this project situates the hotel functions at the highest...
Year: 2010
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Centre Pompidou-Metz

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
“Centre Pompidou-Metz” was planned as an annex for the Centre Pompidou Paris. The complex includes an art museum and theatre....
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Haesley Nine Bridges Golf Clubhouse

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The Nine Bridges Golf Club is designed based on Ban’s desire to make a timber structure, and a strong childhood...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Golf Club
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
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Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station

Hakushima New Station

Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
The triangular plaza that symbolizes the delta of the old Oota River and the Mori Clan family crest is covered...
Year: 2010
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Station
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House

Make It Right House

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Hurricane Katrina, which occurred in August 2005, caused enormous damage to the City of New Orleans. In December 2007, the...
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: Brazil
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: Brazil
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Museum of Image and Sound

Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: Brazil
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Along the Copacabana beach the city creates a massive wall that divides the nature from the city of Rio de...
Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: Brazil
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Espace de Restitution de la Grotte Chauvet

Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
This project included the reproduction of the cave itself, as well as exhibition halls in which the prehistoric context of...
Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2008
Status: Competition
Location: Croatia
Type: New-built
Program: Airport
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2008
Status: Competition
Location: Croatia
Type: New-built
Program: Airport

Zagreb Airport New Passenger Terminal

Year: 2008
Status: Competition
Location: Croatia
Type: New-built
Program: Airport
Due to the increasing numbers of the passengers and the aging of the existing passenger terminal, a new terminal intended...
Year: 2008
Status: Competition
Location: Croatia
Type: New-built
Program: Airport
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

Sagaponac House

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
The plan is based on an analysis of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt Brick Country House (1924), reinterpreted according...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Timber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection

GC Itabaschi Headquarters

Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Running parallel to the streets on the east and west, the two wings of the GC building are united by...
Year: 2004
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
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: 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: 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