The site is located at the top of a sloped street on the corner of an L-shaped bend. Looking back...
“Centre Pompidou-Metz” was planned as an annex for the Centre Pompidou Paris. The complex includes an art museum and theatre....
The Nine Bridges Golf Club is designed based on Ban’s desire to make a timber structure, and a strong childhood...
A position on top of a hill was found where three different views could be framed. Approaching the site along...
Most of the warehouses and galleries in the Chelsea area of New York become a district of shuttered facades at...
Hurricane Katrina, which occurred in August 2005, caused enormous damage to the City of New Orleans. In December 2007, the...
Located on the Seikei University Campus, the Seikei Elementary School is terraced to the south to allow ample sunlight into...
Owned by an art and plant collector, Quinta Botanica overlooks the ocean from a cliff in Algarve, the southernmost region...
The GC Oyama Factory is a 2-storey facility for a dental equipment manufacturer, on a 851 square meter site with...
Situated at the historical and commercial area in Seoul, South Korea, one of the main features of this project is...
The entire facade facing Ginza Street is covered with a glass shutter, allowing a three floor atrium to transform into...
The plan is based on an analysis of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s unbuilt Brick Country House (1924), reinterpreted according...
In order to make it easier for students to gather, the big atrium space was made more flexible to allow...
The structure of this company dormitory is organized by two parallel Vierendeel trusses that sit on eight columns, and a...
For this glass artist’s atelier, an off-the-shelf steel angle shelf system was employed as the main structural system that is...
In order to help the victims of the tsunami in 2004, 80 houses and a mosque were planned to recreate...
Conceptually parallel to the “Furniture House 1”, this gallery space contains a series of exhibition units that double as structure....
This boathouse, sheltering a historically significant canal boat, is made of a triangular-lattice paper-tube grid-shell structure, covered by corrugated polycarbonate...
“GC Nagoya Building” is an office for a dental equipment corporation that contains office spaces, a seminar facility, and a...
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...
This is one in a series of projects utilizing stacking glass shutters. The plan is organized from interior spaces and...
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...
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 people who lost their homes due to the Gujarat Earthquake in 2001, the Paper Log House was redesigned...
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...
A home for a three-generation family. The exterior walls are made of two layers of alternating corrugated FRP, and the...
The building features one-story-high Vierendeel trusses spanning 22 meters on every other floor. Enclosed rooms with determined purposes are placed...
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...
The Furniture House 3 is a further development of the furniture unit system. The second story of the house arranges...
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...
“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...
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...