Shigeru Ban

ARCH 417Dec 7, 2015

agenda

final exam: same format as midterm but longer and cumulative across the whole semesterdrawing portfolio due on Weddrawing assignment:

Shigeru BAN

• born 1957• established Shigeru Ban Architects in

1985

design philosophy

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203499704576622943953368166Julie Iovine, "60 Seconds with Architect Shigeru Ban," Wall Street Journal, October 15, 2011

"When I started as an architect I was disappointed because architects mainly work for privileged people, big corporations and rich developers who want to show their power and money through buildings. I thought I would be working for a more general public or for people who needed houses. The reality is totally different."

"After I saw photographs of the plastic sheets given to refugees to live under in Rwanda, in 1994, I went to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to propose ideas for better shelters. Ever since then I have worked in disaster areas. Right now I am designing a paper-tube cathedral seating 700 for Christchurch in New Zealand, where this year there were earthquakes.

"Home for me is inside an airplane. I have an apartment in Paris, where I stay for two weeks every month, and one in Tokyo that I designed. It is almost in the middle of Tokyo but inside a small forest. It is like a tree house."

"I am not interested in the World Trade Center. That kind of work is very political and I don't want to make monuments."

"The opportunity to make a building in Manhattan is so rare that, of course, I wanted to do it. When I went to the site in Chelsea, I saw so many galleries and storage places shuttered, and that's why I chose shutters for the new building. Normally apartments in New York are turned in, and I wanted to open it all up to the townscape."

"Wherever I go, I always take a sketchbook and a novel to read, usually something historical or a who-done-it."

"I look up to Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, John Hejduk and Frei Otto. Otto because he was so innovative about lightweight structures, and it was because of John Hejduk that I came to the United States in 1977 to study at the Cooper Union, where he was dean. But Aalto's work is very important to me, too. Whenever I can I visit his Villa Mairea in Finland, because of its absolute sense of context and the touch of materials."

sketch for House at Hanegi Park, Tokyo, Japan, completed 2011

"The most useful product invented? Of course, it's the pencil."

Paper Arbor 1989Nagoya, JapanThis was the first in a series of paper tube constructions. Manufactured as form work for circular concrete columns, the tubes are used structurally here. Forty-eight of these tubes (325mm in diameter, 15mm thick and 4m high) are treated with paraffin water-proofing and fitted onto a precast concrete base in a circle. These were stiffened with a glue compound and joined at their heads by a wooden compression ring. The roof consisted of tenting fabric hung from tension wire arranged in a spoke-like configuration. After the structure was dismantled, the strength of the paper tubes was analyzed. Despite being subject to six months of wind and rain, the hardening of the glue and moderate exposure to ultraviolet rays actually resulted in increasing the compressive strength of the tubes.

LIBRARY OF A POETZushi, Kanagawa, Japan, 1991This library was built as an annex to a house I had previously expanded previously expanded and improved. The project was influenced by the Odawara Pavilion, which the owner had seen. He felt that a paper library would be best suited to house paper books. A variation of the paper tube truss used in the East Gate at Odawara was used here. The tubes used in the library were 100mm in diameter and 12mm thick, slightly smaller than those used at Odawara, but similarly, post-tensioned steel wires were used for the spanning sections. Where steel angles were used to form the joints at Odawara, 38 square mm timber pieces were employed for the library. The four floor to ceiling bookshelves along the sides of the room are structurally independent of the paper tubes and are cantilevered off the floor, absorbing the horizontal load. The bookshelves, which contain insulating material and have an exterior finish, were fabricated separately at a factory.

VILLA KURU Nagano, Japan, 1991• Mountainous site in Nagano, Japan • sharply sloping site and views and has a sweeping view of the surrounding

mountains; a primary goal of the design process was to find the best way of framing the magnificent panorama. The overall composition consists of a

• cylindrical core of 3.7 meters in diameter, containing a bathroom and the kitchen; a square core holding the bedrooms; and a wall running parallel to the adjacent road.

• the two cores bear the perpendicular loads and resist the lateral stresses of the cantilever.

• floor slab is cantilevered 4.5 meters from the centerline of the building. The single-pitch roof which follows the slope of the site is supported by two laminated-wood beams fixed on top of the cores. The linear wall, roughly finished in masonry, is separate from the roof structure.

interior with views

FURNITURE HOUSE 1 - Yamanashi, Japan, 1995

• Prefabricated full-height units function as structural elements as well as defining space and creating storage.

• Reduction of construction time, increase in usable space.• Dimensions: 2.4 meters high, 0.9 meters wide, with an 0.45

meters depth for bookcases and a 690mm depth for other units.) Weighs 79.2kg, so can be easily moved into place and arranged as desired.

Curtain Wall HouseTokyo, Japan 1995

Centre Pompidou, Metz (2010)• 2003: Project proposed by Shigeru Ban (Tokyo), Jean de

Gastines (Paris) and Philip Gumuchdjian (London) is the winner of the international architecture competition.

• 2006-2009: Construction.• 2010: Building opens.

Metal Shutter HousesNY, NY 2011

refugee camp, Rwanda, Africa, 1994

paper structure for Rwanda, 1999

current project, Nepal

HUMANITARIAN WORK

http://www.sasharitter.com/blog/5to3a5y56leh8dvfu4fthgmldvxm48

Cardboard Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2013

biomimicrybiomimeticsbiomimetic design

• Janine Benyus, Biomimicry 1997

Tim Smit• Tim Smit, born in Holland to an

English mother• worked as a music producer• Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall,

England• fell into ruin following WW I• comprehensive restoration project

Heligan Manor, Cornwall, England, with restored garden figure

Eden Project

• Eden Project was first conceived in 1995 as a restoration of an almost-spent mine

Rainforest Biome

• designed by Nicholas Grimshaw of Grimshaw Architects

Patrick Lynch. "Bone-Like Plastic Structures Form Biodegradeable Temporary Pavilions With "Osteobotics" 06 Dec 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed 6 Dec 2015.http://www.archdaily.com/778099/bone-like-plastic-structures-form-biodegradeable-temporary-pavilions-with-osteobotics?ad_medium=widget&ad_name=most-visited-article-show