Japan

Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Bamboo Structure, Timber Structure, Paper Tube Structure,
Exhibition DesignsExhibitionsPaper tube architectureTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Bamboo Structure, Timber Structure, Paper Tube Structure,

Blue Ocean Dome

Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Bamboo Structure, Timber Structure, Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation,
Structure: Bamboo Structure, Timber Structure, Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Timber Structure,

SIMOSE (SIMOSE ART MUSEUM + SIMOSE ART GARDEN VILLA)

Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Timber Structure,
The facility consists of a museum, 10 villa-style accommodations, and a restaurant on a 4.6ha site facing the Seto Inland...
Year: 2023,
Status: In Progress,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,

ZEN Wellness SEINEI

Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
This is a plan of an accommodation facility where guests can experience“zazen” on a small, lush site on Awaji Island....
Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,

Shishi-iwa House No.2

Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Second project for “Shishi-iwa House” in Karuizawa. The simple two-story rectangular plan evolved from the very tight rectangular site. The...
Year: 2022,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Health,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief Design
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Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Health,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Mock Vaccination Center

Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Health,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
On February 2, 2021, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) demonstrated Paper Partition System at mock vaccination center in Komatsu, Ishikawa.Cooperated with:...
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Program: Health,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Retail and Commercial,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Retail and Commercial,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Farmer’s Restaurant

Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Retail and Commercial,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
The restaurant is built in the midst of a large natural field and serves fresh vegetables from there. The thatched...
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Retail and Commercial,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,

New Shizuoka Prefectural Central Library

Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
In order to form an east-west and north-south axis in front of Higashi-Shizuoka Station, a high-rise library was planned in...
Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,

KARUIZAWA TOWN HALL

Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Structure: Timber Structure,

SHONAI HOTEL SUIDEN TERRASSE SPA

Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Transport and Infrastructure,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Transport and Infrastructure,
Structure: Timber Structure,

OITA AIRPORT MARINE ACCESS PASSENGER TERMINAL

Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Transport and Infrastructure,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Transport and Infrastructure,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,

TAMADIC NAGOYA

Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Due to Japan’s excessive regulations against timber structures, it is impossible to build a “pure” mid-rise timber structure, so a...
Year: 2021,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Office and Headquarters,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

Paper Partition System2020 / Coronavirus pandemic

Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
VAN has developed the“Paper Partition System”to be used in order to prevent spreading of virus transmitted through droplets.  March 14th,–...
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Interior,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Interior,
Program: Culture and Leisure,

hagukumu KOHAN

Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Interior,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
A grid was found to accommodate storage, display shelves, lighting, and air conditioning for the cafe’s needs, and the entire...
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Interior,
Program: Culture and Leisure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,

2020 South Kyushu Flooding / Paper Partition System

Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) and Shigeru Ban Architects provided 1300 units of Paper Partition System (PPS) as a relief to...
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Temporary,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,

Art Biotop – Suite Villa

Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Villa-type accommodation facility planned in a vast forest of about 16,000m². With taking advantage of the shape of the land,...
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Mixed Use,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2020,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Mixed Use,
Structure: Timber Structure,

Isa City Hall

Year: 2020,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Mixed Use,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Competition,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Mixed Use,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Hotel,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,
Feature: Plywood Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Hotel,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,
Feature: Plywood Structure,

Farmer’s Hut

Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Hotel,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,
Feature: Plywood Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Hotel,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,
Feature: Plywood Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,

Full House

Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,
This small book shop / café space, also used as community space for local residents and students, is an extension...
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Culture and Leisure, Residential,
Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Timber Structure,
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Timber Structure,
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Timber Structure,

Bookshelf House

Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Timber Structure,
A new living room is added to a cottage at the foot of Yatsugatake. On the gable side of the...
Year: 2020,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: Extension / Renovation,
Program: Residential,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2019,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Health, Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2019,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Health, Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,

Kur Park Nagayu

Year: 2019,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Health, Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
The Kur Restaurant is composed of paper tubes made of wood and recycled paper. It serves as the reception to...
Year: 2019,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Health, Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Year: 2018,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,

Shishi-iwa House

Year: 2018,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,
When visiting the site in Karuizawa, there was a forest unique to Karuizawa where beautiful trees grow thick. The first...
Year: 2018,
Status: Completed,
Location: Japan,
Type: New-built,
Program: Hotel,
Structure: Timber Structure,