Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect who was born in 1957.He really cares for the world around him and does a ton of innovative humanitarian work. He goes out of the architecture norm by using paper, usually recycled cardboard tubes, as the main building material in many of his buildings. In all of his projects his buildings have a very open quality and most of them can be totally opened up to the outdoors. He is recognized as one of the most innovative architects of the 21st century.
One of Ban's most interesting projects is his first furniture house. This house's walls are totally made of prefabricated bookshelves and wardrobes. This decreases needed labor and time needed for construction dramatically. It also decreases the cost of the bulding and makes the building a lot more functional because all the storage is built right into the house.
Another one of Ban's most famous projects are his paper-log cabins. When earthquakes ripped apart communities in Kobe, Japan, Kaynasli, Turkey, and Bhuj, India Ban answered the call for help. He built small villages of log cabins made out of recycled paper tubes for communities who wanted to stay at their homes and rebuild. He set out to create inexpensive adequately insulated, and good looking buildings that could also be quickly and easily built. He suceeded in designing these simple cabins for the families.
He is a very green architect. Were most of his buildings vernacular?
ReplyDeleteI like how he is very caring about the environment. It looks like he uses vernacular goods does he?
ReplyDeleteto the vernacular thing i mean they have paper everywhere i guess it doesnt seem so much as being vernacular to me as prefabrication
ReplyDeletei like how he is helping the environment
ReplyDeletehis buildin sound and look green. its cool how hes likes to help the enviroment
ReplyDeleteI wonder how sturdy the building made out of shelves is.
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