Shigeru Ban’s mini Paper Log Home welcomed at The Glass Home

‘Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log Home’ opens at The Glass Home – Philip Johnson’s Connecticut property turned museum – as a part of its seventy fifth anniversary program. On view by means of December fifteenth, the 4.1 by 4.1 sq m mannequin residence was constructed collaboratively by 39 college students from New York structure faculty Cooper Union over the course of 5 weeks. 

The design champions the environment friendly, sustainable structure and cost-effective use of readily sourced paper tubes as a constructing materials. Over the previous 30 years, completely different iterations of the construction have been assembled all through the world, particularly as an simply deployed momentary shelter for displaced populations. Unsurprisingly, the challenge is featured within the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect’s new Full Works 1985–Right this moment monograph, launched by Taschen in June.

‘Shigeru Ban: The Paper Log Home’ at The Glass Home

‘When the Glass Home was accomplished in 1949, Philip Johnson was simply at first of what would turn out to be an expansive campus full of buildings that frequently pushed boundaries in design and supplies,’ says Kirsten Reoch, museum government director. ‘The Paper Log Home continues this ethos of experimentation and innovation, turning Ban’s artistic vitality towards the answer of pressing social issues with recyclable and simply accessible supplies.’

Configured as a standard gabled roofed residence, the Paper Log Home idea stemmed from Ban’s want to scale back waste. He started experimenting with the concept of utilizing paper tubes – harnessed by domestically sourced wooden – in 1985. He has since developed iterations just like the 24 metre-high Cardboard Cathedral accomplished in 2013 after an earthquake devastated Christchurch, New Zealand. Although clad in polycarbonate panels, the A-frame construction stays intact and remains to be supported by the tube materials. 

The challenge challenges the preconceived notions of permanence and materials power. In internet hosting the most recent Paper Log Home, The Glass Home confronts its guests with the complexities of historic preservation; the distinction of seemingly sturdier glass and brick with in any other case taken-for-granted cardboard.

Situated in sightline of the particular Glass Home, this model of the Paper Log Home is absolutely operational and insulated. Whereas recycled plastic milk crates kind the house’s basis, metal cables preserve its roof in place. The general challenge places a advantageous level on Ban’s career-defining dedication to humanitarian structure, which he’s additionally been in a position to obtain within the renewed implementation of responsibly extracted and processed mass-timber.