Completed

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Housing Complex
House and housingWorks
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Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Housing Complex

Cast Iron House

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Housing Complex
The project consists of a gut renovation of an existing landmarked commercial building, renowned for its ornate cast iron façade,...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Tamadic Nagoya

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
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
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Training Facility
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Training Facility

HAESLEY HAMLET / Condominium

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Training Facility
Hamlet is a four-building complex that serves as an executive training center and accommodation built next to the Haesley Nine...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Training Facility
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System2020 / Coronavirus pandemic

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant

hagukumu KOHAN

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Interior
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
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: Cafe / Restaurant
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation

Former Art Biotop – Suite Villa

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
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: Accommodation
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: 宿泊施設 Accommodation
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: 宿泊施設 Accommodation
Feature: Plywood Structure

Farmer’s Hut

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: 宿泊施設 Accommodation
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: 宿泊施設 Accommodation
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Commercial Facility
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Commercial Facility

Full House

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Commercial Facility
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: Commercial Facility
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: House

Bookshelf House

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: House
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: House
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Tainan Art Museum

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
This art museum explores a building typology where the art museum and the activities of the park are not separate,...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Factory

SWATCH OMEGA / Omega Factory

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Located in Biel/Bienne, the heart of Swiss watch making, The campus involves two brands, namely Omega and Swatch, clearly distinguishes...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation Cafe / Restaurant
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation Cafe / Restaurant

Kur Park Nagayu

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation Cafe / Restaurant
This Kurhaus consists of hot spring facility with a split-level double height space topped with a large roof structure composed...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation Cafe / Restaurant
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Shishi-iwa House

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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: House
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System 4 / Typhoon Hagibis

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Typhoon Hagibis(2019) strike eastern Japan. Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) provided Paper Partition System and Honeycomb Board Beds in evacuation facilities...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility

Paper Green House Les Tonnelles

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
This greenhouse is composed of arches made from paper tubes connected by metal joints. on the exterior, a ready-made greenhouse...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Commercial Facility
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility

Keio University SBC Paper Studio

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
This dome is a part of Keio University‘s SBC project (Student-Build Campus). Since the construction work by students was required,...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Airport
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Airport

Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport Extension And Renovation

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Airport
This is an extension and renovation design for the existing terminal building at Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport, taking into account...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Airport
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architectureTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility

Keio University SBC Dome

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
This dome is a part of Keio University‘s SBC project (Student-Build Campus). Since the construction work by students was required,...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation

Shonai Hotel Suiden Terrasse

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
This hotel accommodates about 150 rooms and is built in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture. In order to position the architecture...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System / Hokkaido Earthquake

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
The Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, which occurred on September 6, 2018, with a maximum seismic intensity of 7, caused significant...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 4 (PPS4) -West Japan Flooding-

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The heavy rains in western Japan (heavy rains of July 2018) were heavy rain disasters that occurred from June 28...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Bamboo Pavilion at Tongji University

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Commonly used as flooring materials in China, bamboo flooring (thickness: 17mm, width: 130mm, length: 1,100mm ) with bolt fasteners form...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center
Feature: Plywood Structure

Kids Dome Sorai

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center
Feature: Plywood Structure
In developing a dome with a diameter of 35.6m and a height of 6.95m, the idea was to use an...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House

Triangle House

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
The complex site with irregular angles and a steep slope was further restricted in having to consider the possibility of...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Mt.Fuji World Heritage Centre

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
The building with timber latticed facade reflected in the water is a symbolic representation of Fuji as a “mountain of...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Theater
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Theater

La seine musicale

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Theater
This project is for a music hall complex including a multi-purpose hall, classical music hall and school of music, located...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Theater
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

“Projects in Progress” Exhibition

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
After 18 years, for the second time at Gallery Ma, the exhibition housed projects in progress, revealing the design philosophy...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: School
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: School

Khumjung Secondary School

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: School
Situated at the elevation of 3790m in Nepal, Khumjung School was first built by Mt. Everest’s first climber, Sir Edmund...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: School
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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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: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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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: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / 2016 Central Italy earthquake

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
In central Italy, three earthquakes have occurred in a row since August. The damage caused by the earthquake that occurred...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architectureWorksPPS
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / Kumamoto Earthquake

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The Kumamoto earthquake was an earthquake with a seismic intensity of 7 observed on April 14 and 16, 2016, causing...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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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: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Ecuador
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief Design
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Ecuador
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing

Ecuador Paper Temporary House

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Ecuador
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
On April 16 at 18:58 ECT Ecuador was hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8. Death toll rised...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Ecuador
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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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
To service the various events, functions and installations that will be held at the museum, horizontal bi-folding doors and moveable...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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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