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 Volvo Ocean Race, a global event that races to 10...
The concept of the pavilion was to create a nomadic exhibition structure easy to assemble and disassemble; all the structure...
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 the main event space for the popular biennale situated within the large open park at the...
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 aims of this project were to...
This is a competition proposal for the main pavilion of the Yeosu Expo in 2012. As this was a temporary...
This project was planned to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa in 2010. The “Akira Kurosawa...
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 main issue for this park (Kalifa Park) was the dispersal of the existing facilities and open spaces, while their...
A bridge using paper tubes was constructed in Nîmes (France) next to a Roman aqueduct, Pont du Gard which is...
UPM developed a new material called “Wood-Plastic Composite” which is self-adhesive label materials made of paper and plastic.  Artek asked...
In the West of Paris on Isle Seguin on the Seine is the location of the old manufacturing plant of...
The Nomadic Museum, a mobile exhibition hall dedicated to the photographs and video exhibitions by photographer Gregory Colbert, was built...
This temporary architecture was built as an homage to the artist, Paul Cezanne, in commemoration of the Cezanne in Provence...
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...
Built on the Manhattan’s historic Pier 57 on the Hudson River, the Nomadic Museum is a traveling temporary museum for...
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...
The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in...
The design for this exhibition required a system which would be flexible and adjustable to travel from one location to...
As a temporary structure of at most 10 years was requested, recyclable and reusable materials were used for the building....
A half-scale prototype of the “Forest Park Pavilion” in St. Louis, the Bamboo Roof is comprised of groups of four...
This temporary building using paper tubes was a voluntary proposal for a memorial at the World Trade Center site after...
The competition of a temporary satellite of the New York Guggenheim Museum in Tokyo required three different phases of the...
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...
This project was started from 1996 and had continued for 8 years. Dental exhibitions took place every 2 months where...
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...
Created for the 1989 Design Expo, the Paper Arbor is comprised of 48 water-proofed paper tubes that fit into a...
For the 1989 Hiroshima Expo themed “Oceans and Islands” Asia Club requested a pavilion designed in an Asian style. A...