Shigeru ban

Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban Architects 5-2-4 Matsubara, Setagaya-ku Tokyo 156-0043 Phone +81-3-3324 6760 Fax +81-3-3324 6789 tokyo@ShigeruBanArchitects.com 1984 Received Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union 1985 Established private practice in Tokyo 1993-95 Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Tama Art University 1995-00 Consultant of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 1995Established NGO (VAN) 1995-99 Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Yokohama National University 1996-00 Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Nihon University 2000 Visiting Professor of Columbia University 2000 Visiting Fellow of Donald Keen Center, Columbia University 2001- Professor of Keio University

www.shigerubanarchitects.com Established 1985 Owner-Shigeru Ban Partner-Nobutaka HiragaPaper House

Paper Log Houses

Picture Window House

Naked House

Curtain Wall House

Walls-less House

e-ch the european concept house

shigeru ban, malinova, peykova

Shigeru Ban, Paper House
The public today has an image of Shigeru Ban as the ’’paper architect’’. He became interested in paper tubes,that is the tubes that areused in paper mills as cores for rolled paper,aroundthe time he returned to japan from the us. He first used the material in the ‘’alvar alto exhibition ‘’ to create freestanding walls and celling. Paper tubes have a texture different from that of wood,and arranged in row they suggest that ancient and beautiful architectural feature,the colonade. Ban used paper tubes as an architectural material in exibition and event sites in 1989 and 1990. The use ofthe tubes in the main structure of a building was still not permitted by the building standard law. Ban’s first paper-tube building after getting authorization was ‘’Paper House’’ 1995, a villa for himself. This vila is based on a certain geometry two spaces of different size were defined by 110 paper tubes(2.7 high,275 mm in diameter and 148 mm thick) arranged in an s-shape above a squere 10 metersto a side. This was the first project in which paper tubes were authorized for use as a structural basis in a permanent building. Ten paper tubes support the vertical load and the eighty interior tubes bear the lateral forces. The cruciform wooden joints in the bases of the columns are anchored to the foundation by lug screws and cantilevered from the floor. The large circle formed by the interiortubes forms a big area. A freestanding paper tubes column with a 1.2m diameter in the surrounding gallery contains a toilet. The exterior paper tubes surrounding the courtyard stand apart from the structure and serve as a screen. The living area in the large circle is without furnishing or detail other than an isolated kitchen counter, sliding doors, and movable closets. When the perimeter sashesare opened, the roof, supported by the colonnade of paper tubes, is visually emphasized and a spatial continuity is created between the surrounding gallery space and the outdoor terrace. The sliding doors on the four sides of the equare are detached from the structure, and the relationship between exterior and interior spaces can be freely altered by opening or closing these doors.

First floorView toward the outside

Exterior view from the southwest

The living area, surrounded by paper

e-ch the european concept house

shigeru ban, malinova, peykova

Shigeru Ban, Paper Log Houses
Paper architecture is based on the idea of using a standardized element generated by a production process, namely paper tubes. Transferring the technology behind an everyday material to anothermade possoble a change in thinking. The idea inevitably led to search for a place that most requires such a low-cost, simple material. In 1994 ban conceived the idea of making prototypes for refugee shelters out of paper. Japan: These are temporary Paper Log Houses built for the victims of the earthquakes in Kobe, Kaynasli and Bhuj. The foundation consists of donated beer crates loaded with...