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The paper dome was designed by an architect Shigeru Ban after the Takatori Church collapsed in the 1995 Osaka-Kobe Earthquake as a temporary site for a summit. After it fulfilled its local mission, the paper dome that symbolized the reconstruction effort, it was shipped all the way to the Taomi community to continue its relief mission.
Paper Dome Taiwan Paper Dome Taiwan Year: 2008, Status: Completed, Location: Taiwan, Type: Reconstruction, Program: Culture and Leisure, Structure: Paper Tube Structure, Paper church had played the role as the community center opened to the multi-national neighborhood after the earthquake in Kobe.
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That was when Shigeru Ban stepped forward and offered his talent. Cardboard tubes were chosen as the main structural material. Although each paper tube weighs no more than 60 kg, they are able to support weight up to 1,500 kg each, equivalent to the weight of 20 people.
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Shigeru Ban (坂 茂, Ban. pg31 In the design of "The Paper Dome" in 1998, paper as an innovative building material had to meet the rigorous construction codes, so a great deal of structural engineering data was submitted to the government. In this project straight paper tube joists were connected by laminated timber joints. Although the.
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0:00 / 0:41 inside shigeru ban's paper house: a global shelter solution for disaster-prone areas architecture 0 shares connections: +190 shigeru ban showcases his unwavering dedication to.
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Shigeru Ban and the Voluntary Architects' Network (VAN) are once again in action deploying their patented Paper Partition System in the wake of the recent 7.7 magnitude quake that struck western Japan in the early hours of New Year's Day.. The indoor privacy system that the Pritzker Prize winner first devised in the late 1980s and deployed later in response to the 1995 Kobe earthquake was.
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However, the Paper Dome was limited by the high cost of wooden joints. I proposed a grid shell using lengthy paper tubing and without joints to my collaborator, Frei Otto. The tunnel arch would be.
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Paper Dome Paper Dome Year: 2003, Status: Completed, Location: Holland, Type: Temporary, Program: Theater / Auditorium, Structure: Paper Tube Structure, The Nomadic Paper Dome is a hemispherical paper tube structure designed as a temporary theater for a mime group in Amsterdam.
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Spotlight: Shigeru Ban. Shigeru Ban (born August 5th 1957) is a Japanese architect who won the 2014 Pritzker Prize for his significant contributions in architectural innovation and philanthropy.
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The work of this year's laureate, Shigeru Ban, has also been displayed at Vitra. Huddled on a lawn, his structures, three fifty-dollar tents sheathed in standard-issue plastic tarps from the.
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Shigeru Ban's novel innovation for emergency housing Paper Log House in Kobe, Japan was a thriving model. Noticing the beneficial use of the innovation, he furthermore introduced it to other countries around the world. Following it, Paper Log Houses have been built for earthquake survivors in Turkey and India.
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On March 20, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was at IE Business School in Madrid for the official opening of his latest construction, a temporary pavilion made of 173 paper tubes. The Pavilion is.
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Paper Dome Paper Dome Year: 1998, Status: Completed, Location: Japan, Type: New-built, Program: Industrial, Structure: Paper Tube Structure, This permanent paper shelter was designed for a contractor of wooden houses. Because paper tubes cannot be bent, a segmented arch was created with wooden joints.
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August 13, 2013 at 11:44 am EDT Shigeru Ban was commissioned to design and construct the Christchurch Cardboard Cathedral in New Zealand after the deadly earthquake of 2011. Here is a view of the inside, shot in 2013. "I was disappointed in my profession," says architect Shigeru Ban in today's talk, which he gave at TEDxTokyo in May.
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Ban is often praised for his surprising use of materials and for his dedication to humanitarian architecture. Born in Tokyo in 1958, Shigeru Ban grew up in a wooden house, and came to have an early respect for the workmanship of carpenters. He played around making things with small pieces of wood, and at school was accomplished in arts and crafts.
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SHIGERU BAN- Paper Tube Structure and Disaster Relief Projects. Pavilion of Light and Sound, SHISEIDO Venice. 2014, Philippines. Paper Temporary Shelter. 2014, China.. Paper Dome Taiwan. 2006, Singapore. Singapore Biennale 2008 Pavilion. 2008, United States. KENTUCK KNOB VISITOR CENTER & PAVILION. 2008, United Arab Emirate.