Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Paper Log House

Accession Number: 
109706
Order Title: 
Shigeru Ban (109686-109831)
Type of View: 
plan
View Title: 
floor plan 1:100
Image Rights: 
copyrighted
Source Institution: 
NCSU Libraries
Collection: 
Design Library Image Collection
Culture: 
Japanese
Subject: 
sustainability
Subject: 
tensile structures
Subject: 
earthquakes
Subject: 
emergency housing
Subject: 
paper (fiber product)
Subject: 
prefabrication
Subject: 
adaptive reuse
Subject: 
green design (environmental concept)
Subject: 
tubes (object forms)
Subject: 
natural disasters
Subject: 
housing (concept)
Work Types: 
Architecture; dwellings; houses; prefabricated houses
Preferred Title: 
Paper Log House
Agent Display: 
Shigeru Ban (Japanese architect, 1957-)
Date: 
1995 (design)
Materials: 
foundation of sand-filled beer cases, plywood floor, walls of paper tubes (108 mm in diameter and 4 mm thick), and tent material used for ceiling and roof
Measurement: 
16 m2 (area)
Alternate Title: 
Paper Tube Structure 07
Locations: 
Nagata, Kobe, Kinki , Japan
Location Type: 
(current)
Style/Period: 
Contemporary
Classification: 
Architecture