Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper
坂茂 (Shigeru Ban): 紙做的應急避難所
Most people look at cardboard tubes and see something fit for the recycling bin. But architect Shigeru Ban turns them into beautiful buildings. Full bio
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是一件很複雜的事情,
可以翻用或者循環再用的。
她/他們都需要買票。
來建立紀念館式的建築
儘管在過去的歷史發展中,它還是一樣,
她/他們都快要冷得結冰了,
(不清潔的)管子和兵營。
我去籌款,而且籌到了錢。
被用上了十年,人們都很喜歡。
到底什麼建築是永久的,什麼是臨時的呢?
當地官商勾結的問題學校
它們還在被使用著。
一個臨時的音樂廳,
就能變成了簡單的庇護所。
我就把建議告訴市長。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shigeru Ban - ArchitectMost people look at cardboard tubes and see something fit for the recycling bin. But architect Shigeru Ban turns them into beautiful buildings.
Why you should listen
Shigeru Ban's architecture redefines aesthetics, space, structure and even the idea of permanence. In 1986, for the Alvar Aalto Exhibition near Tokyo, Ban experimented with constructing a building from long paper tubes, the kind found at textile factories. The tubes ended up being much stronger than he had imagined, and were easier to waterproof and fireproof than he had guessed. Ban created many experimental buildings in this vein -- from the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Germany, which was meant to be recycled upon demolition, to an office for himself and his students set atop the Pompidou Centre in Paris, where they worked for six years.
But Ban's paper-tube designs have found another use -- as emergency shelters for those who have lost their homes in disasters and wars. In 1994, Ban created shelters for refugees in Rwanda. The next year, after an earthquake in Japan, he rebuilt a local church out of paper tubes that became a local fixture for 10 years. His designs -- both low-cost, and dignity-building -- have housed people affected by disasters in Taiwan, China, Haiti, Turkey and Sri Lanka. He helped develop a shelter system after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of 2011.
The founder of Shigeru Ban Architects, Ban is the 2014 Pritzker Prize winner. He teaches at Kyoto University of Art and Design.
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