Completed

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief Design
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Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Mock Vaccination Center

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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: Product Design
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant

Farmer’s Restaurant

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
This project is aimed to explore the typology of traditional Japanese farmhouses and vernacular homes. However, building an authentic wooden...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Cafe / Restaurant
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Public Bath / Spa
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Public Bath / Spa

Shonai Hotel Suiden Terrasse Spa

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Public Bath / Spa
In contrast to the linear hotel common wing and the guestroom wings, two circular spa buildings have been placed as...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Public Bath / Spa
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
This project consists of a gut renovation of a landmarked commercial building, renowned for its cast iron facade, converting it...
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
In Japan, fire-resistant wooden construction using “sacrificial layer design,” which is generally accepted in Europe, is not permitted. Instead, fake...
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Public Toilet
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Public Toilet

The Transparent Tokyo Toilet

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Public Toilet
Public toilets – especially those in parks – have two main concerns: first, whether they are clean inside, and second,...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Public Toilet
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

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Training Facility
“Haesley Hamlet” is an executive training center that also provides accommodation and a conference hall, built next to “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

Art Biotop – Suite Villa (Now Nasu Mukunone）

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
To allow guests to fully enjoy the mountain streams flowing on both sides of the site, 14 wooden villas (15...
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
The client wanted simple huts for overnight stays, offering guests experience with hands-on farm work near a farmhouse restaurant, built...
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
A book café built as an extension to the home of author Yu Miri in Minami Soma City. Created as...
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
This is an extension to a small vacation house with a monopitch roof. The existing building was a simple, closed-off...
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

National Museum of Modern Art Tainan

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
This art museum explores a building typology in which the art museum and the activities in the park are not...
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
This project is an extension to the main campuses of Swatch and Omega, two of Switzerland’s leading watch manufacturers. The...
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
“Kur Park Nagayu” is a wellness retreat comprising a Kurhaus, Kur Restaurant, and Kur Hotel. The Kurhaus consists of hot...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation Cafe / Restaurant
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 Greenhouse 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 readymade 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 Paper Studio

Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Previously, ministerial approval under Article 38 of the Building Standards Act was required to use paper tubes as permanent structural...
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Airport Airport
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Airport Airport

Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Airport Extension and Renovation

Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Airport 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 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
The dome structure, measuring 18m in diameter, is composed of 9m-long structural frames joined at a central ring. These frames...
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Higher Educational Facility
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 No.1

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
The site contains a forest unique to Karuizawa, in which beautiful trees grow densely, so I gently inserted the building...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
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 contains about 150 rooms and is built in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture. The building was carefully positioned so...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Accommodation
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
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 material in China, bamboo flooring (17mm in thickness, 130mm in width, 1,100mm in length) with bolt...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center 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 Visitor Center
Feature: Plywood Structure

Kids Dome Sorai

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Visitor Center
Feature: Plywood Structure
This indoor recreation and creative workshop facility was designed for children who are unable to play outdoors during the heavy...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center 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
To accommodate the triangular site shape and ensure design flexibility, the first floor uses a reinforced concrete waffle slab, while...
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, Shizuoka

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
With its timber latticed facade reflected in the water, this building is a symbolic representation of Mt. Fuji as a...
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 multi-purpose hall, classical music hall complex and school of music, located on Seguin Island, 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: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / 2016 Central Italy earthquake

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
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: Italy
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