Temporary

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Rietberg Museum Summer Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
This summer pavilion is constructed annually during the summer season. The roof structure is made of lightweight CFRP trusses, allowing...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Switzerland
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Abu Dhabi Art Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: United Arab Emirate
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
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
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House
Exhibition DesignsHouse and housingTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Feature: Furniture House

House Vision Furniture House

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
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: House
Feature: Furniture House
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Garage Center for Contemporary Culture Temporary Pavilion

Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
This temporary pavilion was designed for the “Garage Center” art gallery in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia. It was requested that...
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Russia
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2013
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

“Architecture and Humanitarian Activities” 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
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2012
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Irving Penn and Issey Miyake 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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Feature: Container Structure

Community Center – Onagawa

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
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary

Camper Traveling Pavilion

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary
Designed for Camper as one of the yacht sponsors for Volvo Ocean Race, a global event that races to 10...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Spain United States China France
Type: Temporary
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Maison Hermès Pavilion

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
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
Status: Completed
Location: Japan Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Disaster Relief DesignHouse and housing
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House

Onagawa Container House

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Since the 3.11 earthquake, we have visited more than 50 evacuation facilities and during that time, we heard the news...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: House
Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecturePPS
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Year: 2011
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System / East Japan Earthquake

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: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

L’Aquila Temporary Concert Hall

Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
L’Aquila Temporary Concert Hall opened on May 7th, 2011. The opening ceremony was held with the orchestra conducted by Tomomi...
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2011
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Booth for Davines Group

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
Exhibition DesignsTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Germany
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Taschen Frankfurt Bookfair Booth

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
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: Haiti
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Emergency Shelters – Haiti

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: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Paper Theater – Shanghai Expo 2010

Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
The concept for this theatre design is based on one of the operational themes for the Japanese Industry Pavilion, “pulse”,...
Year: 2010
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale Pavilion

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
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Japan Car 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
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2009
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Paper Tower

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
Exhibition DesignsWorks
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Year: 2009
Status: Competition
Location: South Korea
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Expo 2012 Yoesu Thematic Pavilion

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: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Works
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Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Akira Kurosawa Memorial

Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
This project was planned to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa in 2010. The “Akira Kurosawa...
Year: 2009
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Italy France Turkey United States Brazil Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersDisaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School

Paper Temporary School / Chengdu Hualin Elementary School

Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School
This collaborative project between Japanese and Chinese universities involved the design and construction of paper-tube-structured temporary classrooms at the elementary...
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: China
Type: Temporary
Program: School
Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2008
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Paper Tea House

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
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Singapore
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Singapore Biennale 2008 Pavilion

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

Temporary Museum in UAE

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: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge

Paper Bridge

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge
A bridge using paper tubes was constructed in Nîmes (France) next to a Roman aqueduct, Pont du Gard which is...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Bridge
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Artek Pavilion

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
The renowned Finnish company Artek, producer of Alvar Aalto’s furniture, required a pavilion for Milano Salone. Artek requested that we...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Italy
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Nomadic Museum – Tokyo

Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
The Nomadic Museum, a mobile exhibition hall dedicated to the photographs and video exhibitions by photographer Gregory Colbert, was built...
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition Designs
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Year: 2007
Status: Completed
Location: United Kingdom
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Alvar Aalto: through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban 

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
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Vasarely Pavilion

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: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, Others
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Maison du projet

Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
To inform the inhabitants and visitors of Metz about the design and building process of the new Centre Pompidou Metz,...
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum

Nomadic Museum – Santa Monica

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
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 3 – Fujisawa

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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2006
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Installation

Versailles Off Stage

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
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper Partition System 2 – Fukuoka Earthquake 2005

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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2005
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure

Nomadic Museum in New York

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
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Product Design

Paper partition system 1

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
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersExhibition Designs
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Year: 2004
Status: Completed
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Plastic Bottle Structure

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: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater

Paper Dome

Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: Holland
Type: Temporary
Program: Theater
Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Exhibition DesignsPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2003
Status: Completed
Location: France
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Territories Partages Exposition

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: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition
Cultural, Commercial, Academic, OthersTimber and bamboo structures
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Year: 2002
Status: Completed
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Exhibition

Bamboo Roof

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
Works
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Year: 2001
Status: Unbuilt
Location: United States
Type: Temporary
Program: Memorial

Paper Memorial for World Trade Center

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
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Disaster Relief DesignPaper tube architecture
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Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing

Paper Log House

Year: 2001
Location: India
Type: New-built Temporary
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
Type: New-built Temporary
Program: Temporary Housing
Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure
Works
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Year: 2001
Status: Competition
Location: Japan
Type: Temporary
Program: Museum
Feature: Container Structure

Temporary Guggenheim Tokyo

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