Temporary
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing

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Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing
This new temporary house is constructed of a panel system developed in collaboration with Daiwa Lease, a manufacturer of prefabricated...
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

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Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
This is the first large scale individual exhibition, consisting of not only small models images, and photographs, but of full...
Year:
2013
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
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
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:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Feature:
Container Structure

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Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Feature:
Container Structure
Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Feature:
Container Structure
By stacking the container temporary housing on the site, wide building intervals were achieved, and the design for the community...
Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Feature:
Container Structure
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Year:
2011
Status:
Completed
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
The concept of the pavilion was to create a nomadic exhibition structure easy to assemble and disassemble; all the structure...
Year:
2011
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design

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Year:
2011
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design
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:
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:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

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Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
The roof, wall and floor were made of the same geometry, hexagon and triangle, which were used for the timber...
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Germany
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2010
Status:
Completed
Location:
Haiti
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Product Design

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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

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Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
China
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
This temporary pavilion was the main event space for the popular biennale situated within the large open park at the...
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

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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 aims of this project were to...
Year:
2009
Status:
Completed
Location:
United Kingdom
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
Year:
2009
Status:
Competition
Location:
South Korea
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

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Year:
2009
Status:
Competition
Location:
South Korea
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2009
Status:
Competition
Location:
South Korea
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
This is a competition proposal for the main pavilion of the Yeosu Expo in 2012. As this was a temporary...
Year:
2009
Status:
Competition
Location:
South Korea
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2008
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

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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:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
Singapore
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

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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:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Arab Emirate
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Gallery

Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Arab Emirate
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Gallery
The main issue for this park (Kalifa Park) was the dispersal of the existing facilities and open spaces, while their...
Year:
2008
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United Arab Emirate
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Gallery
Year:
2007
Status:
Completed
Location:
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

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Year:
2007
Status:
Completed
Location:
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2007
Status:
Completed
Location:
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
UPM developed a new material called “Wood-Plastic Composite” which is self-adhesive label materials made of paper and plastic. Artek asked...
Year:
2007
Status:
Completed
Location:
Italy
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
In the West of Paris on Isle Seguin on the Seine is the location of the old manufacturing plant of...
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
This temporary architecture was built as an homage to the artist, Paul Cezanne, in commemoration of the Cezanne in Provence...
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:
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
This temporary project was a kind of musical box set within the garden of the Château de Versailles. In the...
Year:
2006
Status:
Completed
Location:
France
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation
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
Built on the Manhattan’s historic Pier 57 on the Hudson River, the Nomadic Museum is a traveling temporary museum for...
Year:
2005
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
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:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

·
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
Year:
2004
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
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
As a temporary structure of at most 10 years was requested, recyclable and reusable materials were used for the building....
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition

·
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
Year:
2002
Status:
Completed
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Exhibition
Year:
2001
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Memorial

Year:
2001
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Memorial
This temporary building using paper tubes was a voluntary proposal for a memorial at the World Trade Center site after...
Year:
2001
Status:
Unbuilt
Location:
United States
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Memorial
Year:
2001
Location:
India
Program:
Temporary Housing

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Year:
2001
Location:
India
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
2001
Location:
India
Program:
Temporary Housing
For the people who lost their homes due to the Gujarat Earthquake in 2001, the Paper Log House was redesigned...
Year:
2001
Location:
India
Program:
Temporary Housing
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure

·
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
Year:
2001
Status:
Competition
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Museum
Feature:
Container Structure
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:
1999
Status:
Completed
Location:
Rwanda
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Temporary Housing

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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

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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:
1997
Status:
Completed
Location:
Japan
Type:
Temporary
Program:
Installation

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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















