A pavilion designed for an art fair in Abu Dhabi. The columns, beams, walls, and roof were all constructed using...
Instead of being supported by conventional columns and walls, this “Furniture House” is supported structurally by the furniture itself, creating...
This temporary pavilion was designed for the Garage Center art gallery in Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia. 6m tall paper tubes...
This is the first large scale individual exhibition, consisting of not only small models images, and photographs, but of full...
This exhibition was designed to display sketches and posters produced by Irving Penn, in collaboration with Issey Miyake. The exhibition...
By stacking the container temporary housing on the site, wide building intervals were achieved, and the design for the community...
Designed for Camper, as one of the yacht sponsors for the Volvo Ocean Race, a global event that races to...
This Pavilion travels the world, exhibiting Hermès’s interior furniture. The paper tubes used for the vertical structure are inexpensive, light,...
Since the 3.11 earthquake, we have visited more than 50 evacuation facilities and during that time, we heard the news...
Iwate / Miyagi / Fukushima / Yamagata / Niigata / Nagano / Tochigi, JapanThe evacuees of the great Japan Earthquake...
L’Aquila Temporary Concert Hall opened on May 7th, 2011. The opening ceremony was held with the orchestra conducted by Tomomi...
Project developed for the international cosmetic company Davines in 2007 and 2011. The concept was to materialize the idea of...
The roof, wall and floor were made of the same geometry, hexagon and triangle, which were used for the timber...
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince causing the greatest natural disaster in recent...
The concept for this theatre design is based on one of the operational themes for the Japanese Industry Pavilion, “pulse”,...
This temporary pavilion was built as the main venue for the Biennale held in a park within the West Kowloon...
This was the first exhibition curated by Design Platform Japan, an organization that presents the work of Japanese design industries...
A temporary tower made of paper tubes, designed for the London Design Festival. The aim of this project was to...
This collaborative project between Japanese and Chinese universities involved the design and construction of paper-tube-structured temporary classrooms at the elementary...
The Paper tea house is made of square paper tubes. Walls are connected by a steel rod and the roof...
As an information center and press center for the 2006 Singapore Biennale, this is the first space frame structure to...
The paper tube bridge was constructed next to Pont du Gard, the Roman aqueduct in Nîmes France, which is designated...
The renowned Finnish company Artek, producer of Alvar Aalto’s furniture, required a pavilion for Milano Salone. Artek requested that we...
The voyage of the Nomadic Museum to Odaiba, Tokyo in 2007, became the third city in its journey. The containers...
The exhibition was designed and co-curated by Shigeru Ban, in collaboration with Juhani Pallasmaa, former director of the Museum of...
In order to celebrate the 100th birthday anniversary of the painter Victor Vasarely, this paper tube pavilion was set in...
To inform the inhabitants and visitors of Metz about the design and building process of the new Centre Pompidou Metz,...
The voyage of the Nomadic Museum began in New York in 2005, and later traveled to Santa Monica near Los...
The new Paper Partition System was invented to improve the previous systems. This new system composed of columns and beams...
This temporary project was a kind of musical box set within the garden of the Château de Versailles. In the...
This paper partition system was developed for refugees form the Fukuoka earthquake that struck in 2005. The main issue in...
This is a mobile museum built for a Canadian photographer, Gregory Colbert. In order to realize a nearly 4,000m2 building...
After the Niigata earthquake many families took refuge in gymnasiums, where they had to share space with strangers for the...
For an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi Hills, plastic bottles were used structurally in order to create...
“Nomadic Paper Dome” is a hemispherical paper tube structure, designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in Amsterdam....
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
For the people who lost their homes due to the Gujarat Earthquake in 2001, the Paper Log House was redesigned...
The theme for the 2000 Hannover Expo was sustainability, so a completely recyclable pavilion was designed. The pavilion took the...
The Paper Arch is made entirely of paper tubes, spanning over the sculpture garden of the MoMA in New York,...
In 1995, Shigeru Ban became involved in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) efforts to provide temporary housing...
The fashion runway was designed using seven paper-tubes of 13 meter length and 62 centimeter diameter. The models walked weaving...
For performances of both Japanese and Chinese traditional drama at the Kabuki-Za Theatre, paper tube stage sets were designed for...
Built as a one-month temporary furniture exhibition, the Nova Oshima Showroom followed the concept of the furniture house in applying...
Because building codes did not require official permits for the construction of gates, the East Gate of the Odawara Festival...
To build a multipurpose hall for Odawara’s 50th anniversary, the city’s mayor requested timber architecture. Paper tubes were suggested instead...