Temporary

Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architectureTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Blue Ocean Dome　

Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
ZERI JAPANOsaka Expo 2025 / Osaka City...
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2025
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architectureNews
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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: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Disaster Relief DesignExhibition DesignsNews
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Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Sanctuary SIT

Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
The Japan touring exhibition of the “Paper Sanctuary,” which was held in London, is being hosted at Shibaura Institute of...
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignDisaster Relief ProjectsNews
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Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake Disaster Relief Project

Year: In progress
Status: In Progress
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Disaster Relief DesignExhibition DesignsNews
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Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

World Bank Understanding Risk Global Forum

Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
The Understanding Risk Global Forum (UR2024), organized by the World Bank, was held June 16th to 24th of 2024 at...
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Disaster Relief DesignExhibition DesignsNews
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Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Sanctuary Naoetsu

Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London. Place: MUJI Naoetsu (Joetsu city in Niigata) Duration: February 13...
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Disaster Relief DesignExhibition DesignsNewsEmergency
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Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Paper Sanctuary OPAM

Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
January 13 – February 4, 2024 The Japanese touring exhibition of “Paper Sanctuary” held in London.The inaugural exhibition took place...
Year: 2024
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignDisaster Relief ProjectsPaper tube architectureEmergency
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Maui Paper Log House

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignDisaster Relief ProjectsExhibitionsPaper tube architectureDisaster Relief ProjectsEmergency
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary

Prototype of Paper Temporary House for Korea　

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary
The prototype of Paper Temporary House for Korea is a simple structure with paper tubes as columns, paper honeycomb boards...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Korea
Type: Temporary
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignDisaster Relief ProjectsExhibition DesignsDisaster Relief ProjectsEmergency
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Sanctuary Simose

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
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
Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignDisaster Relief ProjectsNewsDisaster Relief ProjectsEmergency
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Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary

Styrofoam Housing System

Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary
<<Ukraine Relief Projects PHASE 4 Hospital in Lviv PHASE 3 Stove Aid PHASE 2Styrofoam Housing System PHASE 1PPS for Ukraine...
Year: 2023
Status: In Progress
Location: Ukraine
Type: Temporary
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsExhibitionsPaper tube architectureEmergency
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

KONFiDA stand ITMA

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsExhibitionsEmergency
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Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

The Harmony of Form and Function

Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Spazio 3118th-22nd April, 2023  Interior Concept from Shigeru Ban To best accentuate the beauty of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Lamp,...
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health
Disaster Relief Design
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Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health

Mock Vaccination Center

Year: 2021
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Health
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: Health
Year: 2020
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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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: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Works
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Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Temporary pavillon for Notre-Dame de Paris

Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Shortly after the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris occurred on 15th of April, 2019, we proposed a temporary structure in...
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2019
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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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: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Works
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Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery

Grand Palais Ephémère

Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
The Grand Palais is a historic exhibition hall and art museum built in 1900 in Champs-Élysées, in the center of...
Year: 2019
Status: Competition
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architectureWorksPPSDisaster Relief Projects
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary

Paper Partition System / Hokkaido Earthquake

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
The Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake, which occurred on September 6, 2018, with a maximum seismic intensity of 7, caused significant...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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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: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Bamboo Pavilion at Tongji University

Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Commonly used as flooring materials in China, bamboo flooring (thickness: 17mm, width: 130mm, length: 1,100mm ) with bolt fasteners form...
Year: 2018
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

“The inventive work of Shigeru Ban” at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Australia
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

“Projects in Progress” Exhibition

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
After 18 years, for the second time at Gallery Ma, the exhibition housed projects in progress, revealing the design philosophy...
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
House and housingWorksPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

House Vision 2016 TOKYO Exhibition

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
This is a prototype for developing a housing system for a 50m² house to be built for 5 million yen...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Kumamoto Wooden Prefabricated Temporary Housing

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake are a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 and 6.2, beneath Kumamoto City in the...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / 2016 Central Italy earthquake

Year: 2017
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
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: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architectureWorksPPS
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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: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Dreaming of Earth
Venice Biennale 2016 : “Reporting From the Front”

Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Collaboration work with Jae Eun Choi...
Year: 2016
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structuresWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Nepal House

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
In order to respond to the earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25th, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) and Shigeru Ban...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Nepal
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architectureWorks
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

KYOTO GRAPHIE PAPER TUBE TEMPORARY PAVILION

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
A temporary paper tube pavilion designed for Martin Gusinde Photo Exhibition at Kyotographie International Photo Festival was built in the...
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Disaster Relief DesignExhibition Designs
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Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

SHIGERU BAN- Paper Tube Structure and Disaster Relief Projects

Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2015
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Disaster Relief DesignHousesPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential

Paper Temporary Shelter

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Philippines
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
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: Residential
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education

Paper Nursery School

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Education
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: Education
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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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: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Embassy of Brazil Football Pavilion

Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
This is a temporary pavilion built at the Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in...
Year: 2014
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery

Rietberg Museum Summer Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
The pavilion is used during the summer months for 3 months then put in storage for the remaining time so...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum / Gallery
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation

Abu Dhabi Art Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
This is a structure inspired by the environment as well as the culture and heritage of the UAE. This structure,...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition Design / Installation
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Exhibition DesignsHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House

House Vision Furniture House

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Instead of being supported by conventional columns and walls, this “Furniture House” is supported structurally by the furniture itself, creating...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Residential
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure

Madrid Paper Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure
The pavilion is composed of a L-shape existing concrete wall, 6 paper tubes columns and a paper tubes truss roof...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Spain
Type: Temporary
Program: Culture and Leisure