SHIGERU BAN

For this post I gone to choose a japanese. Shigeru Ban born in 1957. He’sa very interesting architect, because his Works has a point of view very different to the rest. He suggests an architecture kind with the world. So for the Kobe’s earthquake in 1995 he design emergency houses and a new church. His proposal was brilliant, because he choose a very unusual material like is the “PAPER”. He design paper tubes to structure the different buildings. The way how he treat the material was very simple but to the same time so beautiful. He put the tubes in a vertical position to generate a wall. The tubes are very strong and waterpoof, because the paper was treated to resist wieght and the inclemency climate.

The result was very successful. So the ONU sent the differents design of Ban to places has been affected others catastrophes, like Ruanda or Turkey.
Ban has continued designing to a sustainable way. In 2005 create the Nomadic Museum in New York. This time he choose containers to make the museum. The idea is generate a ephemeral building, so he put the containers one by top of the others. In the end the idea is make to disappear the museum. In this case he don´t generate garbage to construct , neither to dismantle the building.