CONGRATS TO S.BAN!
Blog Post #4 by Hannah Pauling (April 2014)
Shigeru Ban, an interesting man in it of himself (read the biography on pritzkerprize.com), has designed and constructed so many different structures throughout his lifetime.. The catch? They are all made out of paper.
Some say that paper is not "sustainable" because trees are a dying resource, but I beg to differ. Trees are renewable, we only need to plant more of them and wah-lah!
While Ban's paper tube pavilions and churches seem most intriguing to any person, I ask you to take a look at his temporary and somewhat permanent housing structures throughout the globe. These touch on the concepts of both traditionally sustainable and socially sustainable architecture.
Emergency Shelter
Log House (Turkey)
Log House (India)
Inside Log House (Japan)
Log House (Kobe, Japan)
Social Sustainability, for those who don't know, is architecture evident in firms like this one: MASS Design Group (Boston)
Ban's paper partition systems seem a tad ominous, considering the lack of sound barrier.. Then again, people like to be able to hear each other, especially in socially-inclined cultures. (i.e. NOT the U.S. or most of Asia)
The Japan Pavilion in Hannover, Germany is slightly more complex to the naked eye than some of his other works. However, it is still a fairly basic pattern, considering the material and shape of the structure.
The 2010 temporary structure at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France, however, is quite an accomplishment in concept and actuality.
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