Paper Tube Structure
Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Project developed for the international cosmetic company Davines in 2007 and 2011. The concept was to materialize the idea of...
Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Haiti
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
·
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Haiti
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
This temporary pavilion was built as the main venue for the Biennale held in a park within the West Kowloon...
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
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
·
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
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 aim of this project was to...
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
Year:
2008
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2008
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
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Year:
2008
Status:
Completed
Location:
Taiwan
Type:
Reconstruction
Program:
Religious Facility
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
·
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
Singapore
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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:
United Kingdom
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2007
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
·
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
In order to celebrate the 100th birthday anniversary of the painter Victor Vasarely, this paper tube pavilion was set in...
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
·
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
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
·
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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:
2005
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
·
Year:
2005
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
·
Year:
2005
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
Year:
2005
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
This is a mobile museum built for a Canadian photographer, Gregory Colbert. In order to realize a nearly 4,000m2 building...
Year:
2005
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Historical Museum
·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Historical Museum
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 with polycarbonate...
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Historical Museum
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Atelier
Feature:
Studio for an Architect
·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Atelier
Feature:
Studio for an Architect
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
New-built
Program:
Atelier
Feature:
Studio for an Architect
As a result of winning the competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz, came permission to build a temporary...
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
Netherlands
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Theater
·
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
Netherlands
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Theater
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
Netherlands
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Theater
“Nomadic Paper Dome” is a hemispherical paper tube structure, designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in Amsterdam....
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
Netherlands
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Theater
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
Year:
2003
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
·
Year:
2000
Status:
Completed
Location:
Turkey
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
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:
Rwanda
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing
·
Year:
1999
Status:
Completed
Location:
Rwanda
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing
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:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
·
Year:
1998
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Office and Headquarters
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
Program:
Product Design
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Feature:
Plywood Structure
The 4 paper tube legs of the stool can be stored in the bent plywood seat....
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Program:
Product Design
Feature:
Plywood Structure
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
·
Year:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
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:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Religious Facility
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
·
Year:
1995
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
New-built
Program:
Temporary Housing
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
·
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
The first permanent paper tube structure, the Paper House is organized on a 10 x 10 meter plan with 110...
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
·
Year:
1990
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Created for the 1989 Design Expo, the Paper Arbor is comprised of 48 water-proofed paper tubes that fit into a...
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
A completely recyclable exhibition system was designed using paper tube walls and square paper tube frames with recycled paper honeycomb...
Year:
1989
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1986
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
·
Year:
1986
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1986
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition containing furniture and glass works of Alvar Aalto was...
Year:
1986
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
1985
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Exhibition
·
Year:
1985
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Exhibition
Year:
1985
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Exhibition
Organized by La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art in California, the Emilio Ambasz Exhibitions were designed for flexible arrangement and...
Year:
1985
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Exhibition
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