Paper Tube Structure

Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
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Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing

2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Disaster Relief Project

Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
NPO Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) + Shigeru Ban Architects have started to set up Paper Partition System (PPS) and cardboard...
Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Osaka
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Osaka
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Blue Ocean Dome　

Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Osaka
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The pavilion at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo aimed to raise awareness about preserving the bounty of the sea for future...
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Osaka
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition

Paper Log House for UAE National Day Event 

Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
For a UAE National Day event taken place on December 2, we built two Paper Log Houses: Arabic Coffee House...
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System / 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires

Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Three units of the Paper Partition System (PPS) were installed at the Westwood Recreation Center in Santa Monica, California—one of...
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Morocco
Program: Temporary Housing
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Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Morocco
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House for Marigha, Morocco

Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Morocco
Program: Temporary Housing
This is a relocation project involving a paper log house prototype built with students in Marrakech in 2024. It was...
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Morocco
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing

Maui Paper Log House

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief Project for 2023 Hawaii-Maui Wildfires Dec.4th-Dec.7th 2023 Collaborators:Hawaii Off-GridUniversity of Hawaiʻi Maui CollegeSchool of Architecture University of Hawaiʻi...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: House Temporary Housing
Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing
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Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing

Temporary housing in Marrakesh

Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing
2023 Morocco Earthquake Disaster Relief Coordination : Fayçal Tiaïba / Laberinto and FenduqCooperation : National School of Architecture of Marrakech...
Year: In progress
Location: Morocco
Program: House Temporary Housing
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper Sanctuary Simose

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
August 28 – September 3, 2023 The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London.The inaugural exhibition took place...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

KONFiDA stand ITMA

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
This is a trade booth and café for KONFiDA, a leading paper tube manufacturer headquarterd in Türkiye, presented at ITMA...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition

Ogijima Pavilion

Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
This project was created in collaboration with artist Oscar Oiwa for the Setouchi Triennale 2022. After the Triennale, it serves...
Year: 2022
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product 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
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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: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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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: New-built
Program: 宿泊施設 Accommodation
Feature: Plywood Structure
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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
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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: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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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
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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: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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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: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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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
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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: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Paper Temporary Shelter

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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: House
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Nursery School
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Nursery School

Paper Nursery School

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Nursery School
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: Nursery School
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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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
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier

Disaster Relief Center in Kyoto University of Art and Design

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
At Kyoto University of Art & Design, a temporary studio of ‘Paper Structure’ was constructed once again by the students...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: New-built
Program: Atelier
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Rietberg Museum Summer Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
This summer pavilion is constructed annually during the summer season. The roof structure is made of lightweight CFRP trusses, allowing...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Abu Dhabi Art Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
A pavilion designed for an art fair in Abu Dhabi. The columns, beams, walls, and roof were all constructed using...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility

Cardboard Cathedral

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
The February 2011 Christchurch earthquake (magnitude 6.3) inflicted crippling damage on the Christchurch Cathedral which was the symbol of city....
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: New Zealand
Type: New-built
Program: Religious Facility
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Temporary Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
This temporary pavilion was designed for the Garage Center art gallery in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia. 6m tall paper tubes...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition

Red Cross Museum “The Humanitarian Adventure: Reducing Natural Risks”

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition
In the museum, the paper tubes are arranged in organic curves and waves reminiscent of a forest or wetlands, giving...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Interior
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Irving Penn and Issey Miyake Exhibition

Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
This exhibition was designed to display sketches and posters produced by Irving Penn, in collaboration with Issey Miyake. The exhibition...
Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Retail Store
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Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Retail Store

Camper Soho

Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Retail Store
Located at 110 Prince Street, with its paper tube roof structure, it was designed to be eye-catching as Camper’s “House...
Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Retail Store
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary

Camper Traveling Pavilion

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary
Designed for Camper, as one of the yacht sponsors for the Volvo Ocean Race, a global event that races to...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Maison Hermès Pavilion

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
This Pavilion travels the world, exhibiting Hermès’s interior furniture. The paper tubes used for the vertical structure are inexpensive, light,...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
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Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / East Japan Earthquake

Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Iwate / Miyagi / Fukushima / Yamagata / Niigata / Nagano / Tochigi, JapanThe evacuees of the great Japan Earthquake...
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum

Musée du Luxembourg

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum
Two new temporary exterior structures were renovated: a café / restaurant / tea room (Angelina) and the museum’s educational workshops....
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Extension / Renovation
Program: Museum