Completed

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Bamboo Roof

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure

Atsushi Imai Memorial Gymnasium

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
As an initial response to the small buildings surrounding the site, which include houses as well as a kindergarten and...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gymnasium
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Bamboo Furniture House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
House and housingHouses
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House

Picture Window House

Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
The main intention for the design of the Picture Window House was to frame the panoramic view while maintaining the...
Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Picture Window House
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Paper Art Museum B

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
For the 924-square-meter contemporary gallery, an existing structure  was renovated. A similar transformation occurs on its south facade. This entire...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure

Imai Hospital Daycare Center

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
The main space of the Daycare Center is created with LVL wood, the same as the roof material of the...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Nursery School
Feature: Plywood Structure
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Veneer Grid Roof House

Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
Year: 2001
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Naked House

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Four freely movable room-boxes on casters in one unique two-storey high room allow three generations of one family to flexibly...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection

GC Osaka Building

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
The building‘s structure is made of one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor, allowing open spaces for...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Feature: Wooden Fire Protection
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Japan Pavilion Expo 2000

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The theme for the 2000 Hannover Expo was sustainability, so a completely recyclable pavilion was designed. The pavilion took the...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper Arch for MOMA

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The Paper Arch is made entirely of paper tubes, spanning over the sculpture garden of the MoMA in New York,...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House – Turkey

Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
Constructed in coordination with a local volunteer organization, the Paper Log Houses aimed to alleviate the homelessness following the earthquake...
Year: 2000
Status: Completed
Location: Turkey
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum

Nemunoki Children’s Art Museum

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
The main design focus for this children’s art museum was to create an ideal facility made of a material familiar...
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Museum
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Emergency Shelters for UNHCR

Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
In 1995, Shigeru Ban became involved in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) efforts to provide temporary housing...
Year: 1999
Status: Completed
Location: Rwanda
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 3

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
The Furniture House 3 is a further development of the furniture unit system. The second story of the house arranges...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Issey Miyake Paris Collection

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The fashion runway was designed using seven paper-tubes of 13 meter length and 62 centimeter diameter. The models walked weaving...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters

Paper Dome

Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
This permanent paper shelter was designed for a contractor of wooden houses. Because paper tubes cannot be bent, a segmented...
Year: 1998
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Nine Square Grid House

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Another development of the furniture house, the Nine-Square Grid House replaced the wood frames of the furniture units with steel....
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Hanegi Forest

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Inherently a three-story row-house complex, the Hanegi Forest succeeded in preserving every existing tree on the site. To ensure that...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Paper Stage

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Wall-less House

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The Wall-less House sits on a mountain slope with the floor sloping upward to meet the roof, naturally absorbing the...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station

Tazawako Station

Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station
More than just a train station, Tazawako Station also offers various public facilities. The openness and transparency of the building...
Year: 1997
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Visitor Center Station
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Nova Oshima Temporary Showroom

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Built as a one-month temporary furniture exhibition, the Nova Oshima Showroom followed the concept of the furniture house in applying...
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

Furniture House 2

Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Furniture House 2 is the prototype of a two-story house employing furniture units as structural system. The furniture system used...
Year: 1996
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility

Paper Church – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
This community center and house of worship was built on the site of Takatori Church which had been destroyed in...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House – Kobe

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
The design criteria for the temporary housing for the Kobe Earthquake victims called for an inexpensive structure that could be...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

2/5 House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The rectangular plan of the house is divided into five parallel, 5×15-metre rectangular zones: front yard, interior space, central courtyard,...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Curtain Wall House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Because the client was used to living “downtown”, a house was created to reflect this traditional open lifestyle with contemporary...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Paper House

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The first permanent paper tube structure, the Paper House is organized on a 10 x 10 meter plan with 110...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

Furniture House 1

Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
The concept for the Furniture House to use prefabricated furniture as structural and space defining elements originates from the Library...
Year: 1995
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery

MDS Gallery

Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery
This is a gallery made from a paper tube structure. All vertical loads are carried by the paper tubes and...
Year: 1994
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Gallery
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housing
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Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

House of Double-Roof

Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Built in a region with heavy snowfall, the second Case Study House sought to separate roof and ceiling. In order...
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory

Dengyosha Factory at Hamura

Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Budget constraints, a tight schedule, and the requirement to accommodate heavy machinery yielded a design with pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete slabs...
Year: 1993
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Factory
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store

Complex by the Railroad

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
Containing shops, offices, and housing, this complex sits on an irregular, pentagonal site flanked by a railroad line and a...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Office and Headquarters House Retail Store
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
House and housing
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex

Housing at Shakuji Park

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
To create a sense of openness in the Housing at Shakujii Park, the axial shear wall was eliminated by arranging...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Housing Complex
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingHouses
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Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

PC Pile House

Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Although the sloping site is as steep as 45 degrees in some locations, extra budget could not be alotted for...
Year: 1992
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
House and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House

I House

Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Anticipating future housing development in the area, the house’s square plan was rotated 45 degrees to expand views and garden...
Year: 1991
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: House
Feature: Case Study House
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Paper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

East Gate of Odawara Festival

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Because building codes did not require official permits for the construction of gates, the East Gate of the Odawara Festival...
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Odawara festival main hall

Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
To build a multipurpose hall for Odawara’s 50th anniversary, the city’s mayor requested timber architecture. Paper tubes were suggested instead...
Year: 1990
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition