“GC Nagoya Building” is an office for a dental equipment corporation that contains office spaces, a seminar facility, and a...
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
From winning the competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz came permission to build a temporary studio atop the...
In order to guarantee sufficient parking space at the ground level, the one story high steel frame structure of the...
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
This is one in a series of projects utilizing stacking glass shutters. The plan is organized from interior spaces and...
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
The rectangular volume of the Glass Shutter House matches the height of the neighboring buildings and occupies half of the...
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
Built for a paper manufacturer, the PAM houses facilities for the exhibition, development and promotion of paper. PAM is divided...
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
There is a day care center, a hospital and traditional homes near the site. Since the size of the gymnasium...
Situated on a mountain overlooking the Great Wall of China, the fourth Furniture House is modeled after a traditional Chinese...
The site is at the top of a small hill that extends out from the sea, so the architecture itself...
For the 924 m2 contemporary gallery, an existing structure was renovated. The structural flame was conserved as is, with all...
The woven LVL structure that was proposed in the “Uno Chiyo Memorial Museum” (2000) was also used in this Daycare...
The roof of the Veneer Grid Roof House is made of a triangular veneer grid similar to the triangular paper...
Four freely movable room-boxes on casters in one unique two-storey high room allow three generations of one family to flexibly...
The building features one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor. Enclosed rooms with determined purposes are placed...
The theme for the 2000 Hannover Expo was sustainability, so a completely recyclable pavilion was designed. The pavilion took the...
The Paper Arch is made entirely of paper tubes, spanning over the sculpture garden of the MoMA in New York,...
Constructed in coordination with a local volunteer organization, the Paper Log Houses aimed to alleviate the homelessness following the earthquake...
The main design focus for this children’s art museum was to create an ideal facility made of a material familiar...
In 1995, Shigeru Ban became involved in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) efforts to provide temporary housing...
The Furniture House 3 is a further development of the furniture unit system. The second story of the house arranges...
The fashion runway was designed using seven paper-tubes of 13 meter length and 62 centimeter diameter. The models walked weaving...
This permanent paper shelter was designed for a contractor of wooden houses. Because paper tubes cannot be bent, a segmented...
The timber frame of the “Furniture House 1” system is replaced with steel studs to compose the Nine Square Grid...
This is an apartment complex composed in a row-house format of individual three-story units. To realize the given condition of...
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
“Wall-less House” sits on a sloped site with the floor slab at the rear of the mountain side, curving up...
This is a multi-functional building combining a railroad station building with a town’s public facilities. From the train, the interior...
Built as a one-month temporary furniture exhibition, the Nova Oshima Showroom followed the concept of the furniture house in applying...
Furniture House 2 is the prototype of a two-story house employing furniture units as structural system. The furniture system used...
This community center and house of worship was built on the site of Takatori Church which had been destroyed in...
The design criteria for the temporary housing for the Kobe Earthquake victims called for an inexpensive structure that could be...
The rectangular site of the house is divided into five equal 15m × 5m rectangles. On two locations, a second...
This is an attempt at using modern materials to preserve the adjustable interior exterior spatial continuity found in the old...
The first permanent paper tube structure, the Paper House is organized on a 10 x 10 meter plan with 110...
By making factory built modularized furniture units (closets and bookshelves) that are 90cm wide and 2.4m high that can bear...
This is a gallery made from a paper tube structure. All vertical loads are carried by the paper tubes and...
Built in a region with heavy snowfall, this second case study house sought to avoid increasing the member sizes of...
Budget constraints, a tight schedule, and the requirement to accommodate heavy machinery yielded a design with pre-cast, pre-stressed concrete slabs...