Fashionecture

CLUSTERING BEAUTY Collection
Spring/Summer 1998

(More photos available in the blog post. Link in bio)

Preston Scott Cohen
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Amir Building


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Paper Emergency Shelters for the United Nations high commissioner for refugees
Byumba refuge camp 1995-99

Ban explored their potential in the range of temporary shelters that he designed for earthquake victims in Japan, Turkey, and India and for more than two million Rwandan refugees. Each of the Rwandan paper-tube structures (1995-99) ingeniously uses the standard plastic sheet issued to refugees by the United Nations to form its walls and roof. Ban worked together with a paper manufacturer to devise ways to produce the tubes on site, thereby expediting the process of providing shelter and eliminating the need to transport materials from afar-in addition to addressing local deforestation issues by requiring no timber.

Shigeru Ban’s architecture exploration of the structural properties of a simple yet unusual building materials.
Ban used an unexpected material, fabric, for his Curtain Wall House in Tokyo. 1993-95, transforming it to a building exterior.