Completed

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters

SWATCH OMEGA / Omega Factory

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters
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: Culture and Leisure Museum / Gallery Industrial Office and Headquarters
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Health Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Health Hotel

Kur Park Nagayu

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Health Hotel
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
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel

Shishi-iwa House

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
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
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: Retail and Commercial
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial

Paper Green House Les Tonnelles

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail and Commercial
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: Retail and Commercial
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education

Keio University SBC Paper Studio

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
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: Education
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport Extension And Renovation

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
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: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education

Keio University SBC Dome

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
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: Education
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel

Shonai Hotel Suiden Terrasse

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Hotel
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: Hotel
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

Yufu City Tourist information center Yufinfo

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
The upper and lower floors are gently connected by a slope in a space where Y-shaped arch columns of laminated...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architectureWorksPPSDisaster Relief Projects
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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 Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Bamboo Pavilion at Tongji University

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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 Design / Installation
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Feature: Plywood Structure

Kids Dome Sorai

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Education
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: Education
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Triangle House

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Mt.Fuji World Heritage Centre

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
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 / Gallery
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Theater / Auditorium
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Theater / Auditorium

La seine musicale

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Theater / Auditorium
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 / Auditorium
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

“The inventive work of Shigeru Ban” at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

“Projects in Progress” Exhibition

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
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 Design / Installation
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Education
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Education

Khumjung Secondary School

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: New-built
Program: Education
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: Education
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
House and housingWorksPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

House Vision 2016 TOKYO Exhibition

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
This is a prototype for developing a housing system for a 50m² house to be built for 5 million yen...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Vin Sante + N house

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Kumamoto Wooden Prefabricated Temporary Housing

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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: Residential
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: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Dreaming of Earth
Venice Biennale 2016 : “Reporting From the Front”

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Collaboration work with Jae Eun Choi...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

House of Light and Shadow

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure

Onagawa Station

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Transport and Infrastructure
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: Transport and Infrastructure
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Oita Prefectural Art Museum

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
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 / Gallery
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Nepal House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architectureWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

KYOTO GRAPHIE PAPER TUBE TEMPORARY PAVILION

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
A temporary paper tube pavilion designed for Martin Gusinde Photo Exhibition at Kyotographie International Photo Festival was built in the...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
House and housingHousesTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential

Solid cedar house

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
With the several projects up until now, concepts have been developed based on Mies Van der Rohe’s works as a...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Residential
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Disaster Relief DesignExhibition Designs
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

SHIGERU BAN- Paper Tube Structure and Disaster Relief Projects

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Pavilion of Light and Sound, SHISEIDO Venice

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
When enveloping together a space using the minimum material and power, a tensile structure* is ideal. To cut out a...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignHousesPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Paper Temporary Shelter

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
This is the temporary shelter constructed at Daanbantayan, Cebu, Philippines, following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan in November of 2013....
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education

Paper Nursery School

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
This temporary nursery school was constructed following the earthquake in Ya’an City, Sichuan, on April 20th, 2013. Lushan County in...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure

LVMH Art Maison

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
The LVMH Art Maison is a 2-storey timber structure multipurpose center, with a total floor area of 291.0m². It not...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery

Aspen Art Museum

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
The New Aspen Art Museum is located in the center of the high mountain town of Aspen, Colorado, on a...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

PAPER PARTITION SYSTEM 4 (PPS4) -Landslide in Hiroshima-

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
On 20th August 2014, heavy rainfall struck Hiroshima City, Japan which caused huge landslides forcing over 1600 residents to evacuate...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design