Centre Pompidou, architects: Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines. Metz. photo by Clément Guillaume
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In Japan, we all know, happened a apocalypse, a catastrophe with three actors: earthquake, tsunami, nuclear melt down at Fukushima. Now 90,000 people are evacuated, homeless. They are still living in schools and sport halls. No rooms for their own, only cabins divided by curtains. Quick solutions are needed to give those victims a new home – at least for a time. The famous Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has some good ideas. He often helped with alternative houses (built from recycled cardboard paper tubes), especially victims of earthquakes (Turkey + Kobe, Japan). Actually he tries to support with the idea of a container-system, movable. I hope they will understand in Japan, that in such times creative thinkers are needed very much – and follow him.
related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Ban
there you can read: “Ban’s refugee shelters (used in Japan after the Kobe earthquake, in Turkey, Rwanda and around the world) are very popular and effective for low-cost disaster relief-housing…” etc.
also related:
http://cocomino.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/sharing-difficulties/
wordpress blogger “cocomino”, Japan, discussing the situation of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown victims, who were forced to leave their houses …
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Image via Wikipedia
also at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Takatori_Catholic_Church.JPG
comment there: “Takatori Catholic Church is a temporary church building erected in Kobe after Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. It was donated (deconstructed and moved) to Taiwan in 2005″
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Related articles
- Globe Trotting: A Look at Shigeru Ban’s Minimalist Shelters for Earthquake Victims (curbed.com)
- Design for Disaster – Paper Tube Shelters by Shigeru Ban (redoitdesign.wordpress.com)
- Design in aid of Tohoku (search.japantimes.co.jp)
- Displaced by choice, architect comes to aid of compatriots displaced by fate (thedisplacednation.wordpress.com)
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What an impressive structure… Gorgeous too! 🙂
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Great post and thank you for sharing Japanese architect.
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Very impressive…
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just one word ” IMPRESSIVE”
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Thanks for sharing !!
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