In 1997, Shigeru Ban completed the Wall-less House, also known as the House Without Walls. In this project, Ban creates a “universal floor,”a term coined by Robert Kronenberg in “Transportable Environments.”Walls disappear, and only the essential elements for living remains. Each space is ...
Shigeru Ban (b. Tokyo, 1957) attended SciArc in California and earned his degree at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. Based in Tokyo and Paris, Ban consistently challenges accepted notions of architecture, designing a house without walls, or an exhibition space made from ...
Architect Shigeru Ban breaks barriers in his house designs, including the presence of exterior walls. The Curtain Wall House in Tokyo is three-stories high, but the top two stories share a wall — a white, curtain wall. In the winter, glass doors can be slid in place for more protection....
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In celebrating Shigeru Ban we are affirming that architecture must touch a heretofore largely ignored segment of our human family. Shigeru has established his reputation through a blend of structural and material innovations, his work in building emergency shelters to house victims of some of the ...
The present inventor confirmed that a tent house of 4 m height at a pole can be assembled by using the paper pipe 1 according to the present invention and daily life is possible at the inside of the tent under usual environmental conditions. In this case, paper pipes 1 applied with a wa...