L’Aquila Temporary Concert Hall opened on May 7th, 2011. The opening ceremony was held with the orchestra conducted by Tomomi...
Project developed for the international cosmetic company Davines in 2007 and 2011. The concept was to materialize the idea of...
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince causing the greatest natural disaster in recent...
The concept for this theatre design is based on one of the operational themes for the Japanese Industry Pavilion, “pulse”,...
This temporary pavilion was the main event space for the popular biennale situated within the large open park at the...
This was the first exhibition curated by Design Platform Japan, an organization that presents the work of Japanese design industries...
A temporary tower made of paper tubes designed for the London Design Festival. The aims of this project were to...
This collaborative project between Japanese and Chinese universities involved the design and construction of paper-tube-structured temporary classrooms at the elementary...
Owned by an art and plant collector, Quinta Botanica overlooks the ocean from a cliff in Algarve, the southernmost region...
The Paper tea house is made of square paper tubes. Walls are connected by a steel rod and the roof...
Paper church had played the role as the community center opened to the multi-national neighborhood after the earthquake in Kobe....
As an information center and press center for the 2006 Singapore Biennale, this is the first space frame structure to...
A bridge using paper tubes was constructed in Nîmes (France) next to a Roman aqueduct, Pont du Gard which is...
In the West of Paris on Isle Seguin on the Seine is the location of the old manufacturing plant of...
The Nomadic Museum, a mobile exhibition hall dedicated to the photographs and video exhibitions by photographer Gregory Colbert, was built...
This temporary architecture was built as an homage to the artist, Paul Cezanne, in commemoration of the Cezanne in Provence...
The voyage of the Nomadic Museum began in New York in 2005, and later traveled to Santa Monica near Los...
The new Paper Partition System was invented to improve the previous systems. This new system composed of columns and beams...
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
Built on the Manhattan’s historic Pier 57 on the Hudson River, the Nomadic Museum is a traveling temporary museum for...
This boathouse, sheltering a historically significant canal boat, is made of a triangular-lattice paper-tube grid-shell structure, covered by corrugated polycarbonate...
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
From winning the competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz came permission to build a temporary studio atop the...
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
By building this paper tube arch structure, the architecture students of the Ban Laboratory at Keio University not only created...
As a temporary structure of at most 10 years was requested, recyclable and reusable materials were used for the building....
This temporary building using paper tubes was a voluntary proposal for a memorial at the World Trade Center site after...
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
For this conservation activity centre commissioned by the Royal Botanic Gardens, a lightweight, energy autonomous paper pavilion was designed in...
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 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...
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
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 first permanent paper tube structure, the Paper House is organized on a 10 x 10 meter plan with 110...
This is a gallery made from a paper tube structure. All vertical loads are carried by the paper tubes and...
The paper tube truss of the East Gate of the Odawara Festival was again employed in the Library of a...
Because building codes did not require official permits for the construction of gates, the East Gate of the Odawara Festival...
To build a multipurpose hall for Odawara’s 50th anniversary, the city’s mayor requested timber architecture. Paper tubes were suggested instead...
Created for the 1989 Design Expo, the Paper Arbor is comprised of 48 water-proofed paper tubes that fit into a...
For the 1989 Hiroshima Expo themed “Oceans and Islands” Asia Club requested a pavilion designed in an Asian style. A...
A completely recyclable exhibition system was designed using paper tube walls and square paper tube frames with recycled paper honeycomb...
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition containing furniture and glass works of Alvar Aalto was...