Completed

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housing
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

House at Hanegi Park – Vista

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
The site is located at the top of a sloped street on the corner of an L-shaped bend. Looking back...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsTimber and bamboo structures
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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: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Le Consortium – Art Gallery

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Le Consortium is a contemporary gallery of art, established in Dijon. The project consists of rehabilitation and extension of the...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Emergency Shelters – Haiti

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince causing the greatest natural disaster in recent...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Paper Theater – Shanghai Expo 2010

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
The concept for this theatre design is based on one of the operational themes for the Japanese Industry Pavilion, “pulse”,...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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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: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housing
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

Villa Vista

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
A position on top of a hill was found where three different views could be framed. Approaching the site along...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
House and housing
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Metal Shutter House

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Most of the warehouses and galleries in the Chelsea area of New York become a district of shuttered facades at...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale Pavilion

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
This temporary pavilion was the main event space for the popular biennale situated within the large open park at the...
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Japan Car Exhibition

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
This was the first exhibition curated by Design Platform Japan, an organization that presents the work of Japanese design industries...
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Paper Tower

Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
A temporary tower made of paper tubes designed for the London Design Festival. The aims of this project were to...
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
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: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School

Paper Temporary School / Chengdu Hualin Elementary School

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School
This collaborative project between Japanese and Chinese universities involved the design and construction of paper-tube-structured temporary classrooms at the elementary...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School

Seikei Elementary School

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Located on the Seikei University Campus, the Seikei Elementary School is terraced to the south to allow ample sunlight into...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: School
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: House
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: House

Quinta Botanica

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: House
Owned by an art and plant collector, Quinta Botanica overlooks the ocean from a cliff in Algarve, the southernmost region...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Portugal
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper Tea House

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The Paper tea house is made of square paper tubes. Walls are connected by a steel rod and the roof...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Religious Facility
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Religious Facility

Paper Dome Taiwan

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Religious Facility
Paper church had played the role as the community center opened to the multi-national neighborhood after the earthquake in Kobe....
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Taiwan
Type: Reconstruction
Program: Religious Facility
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Singapore Biennale 2008 Pavilion

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
As an information center and press center for the 2006 Singapore Biennale, this is the first space frame structure to...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory

GC Oyama Factory

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
The GC Oyama Factory is a 2-storey facility for a dental equipment manufacturer, on a 851 square meter site with...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Kindergarten
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Kindergarten
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

British International Kindergarten

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Kindergarten
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Situated at the historical and commercial area in Seoul, South Korea, one of the main features of this project is...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: South Korea
Type: New-built
Program: Kindergarten
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge

Paper Bridge

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge
A bridge using paper tubes was constructed in Nîmes (France) next to a Roman aqueduct, Pont du Gard which is...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade

Nicolas G. Hayek Center

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
The entire facade facing Ginza Street is covered with a glass shutter, allowing a three floor atrium to transform into...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Retail Store
Feature: Glass Shutter Façade
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Artek Pavilion

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The renowned Finnish company Artek, producer of Alvar Aalto’s furniture, required a pavilion for Milano Salone. Artek requested that we...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Nomadic Museum – Tokyo

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
The Nomadic Museum, a mobile exhibition hall dedicated to the photographs and video exhibitions by photographer Gregory Colbert, was built...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
·
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Alvar Aalto: through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban 

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The exhibition was designed and co-curated by Shigeru Ban, in collaboration with Juhani Pallasmaa, former director of the Museum of...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Vasarely Pavilion

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
This temporary architecture was built as an homage to the artist, Paul Cezanne, in commemoration of the Cezanne in Provence...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library

Seikei University Library

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
In order to make it easier for students to gather, the big atrium space was made more flexible to allow...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Library
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
·
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Maison du projet

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
To inform the inhabitants and visitors of Metz about the design and building process of the new Centre Pompidou Metz,...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
House and housing
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Vierendeel Dormitory

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
The structure of this company dormitory is organized by two parallel Vierendeel trusses that sit on eight columns, and a...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House

Atelier for a Glass Artist

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
For this glass artist’s atelier, an off-the-shelf steel angle shelf system was employed as the main structural system that is...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Nomadic Museum – Santa Monica

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
The voyage of the Nomadic Museum began in New York in 2005, and later traveled to Santa Monica near Los...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 3 – Fujisawa

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
The new Paper Partition System was invented to improve the previous systems. This new system composed of columns and beams...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Versailles Off Stage

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
This temporary project was a kind of musical box set within the garden of the Château de Versailles. In the...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignHousing
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House

Kirinda House – Tsunami reconstruction project

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
In order to help the victims of the tsunami in 2004, 80 houses and a mosque were planned to recreate...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Sri Lanka
Type: New-built
Program: House
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure

Nomadic Museum in New York

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Built on the Manhattan’s historic Pier 57 on the Hudson River, the Nomadic Museum is a traveling temporary museum for...
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum

Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne – Institute

Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Conceptually parallel to the “Furniture House 1”, this gallery space contains a series of exhibition units that double as structure....
Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum

Centre d’Interpretation du Canal de Bourgogne – Boathouse

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
This boathouse, sheltering a historically significant canal boat, is made of a triangular-lattice paper-tube grid-shell structure, covered by corrugated polycarbonate...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: New-built
Program: Historical Museum
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 1

Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design