Shigeru Ban Unveils Updated Prototype for Temporary Housing in Response to the Turkey-Syria Earthquake

Shigeru Ban Architects, in collaboration with Voluntary Architects’ Network, has developed an improved version of the temporary housing developed to help those affected by the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake.

This new system uses wooden panels to build the walls between the paper tube columns placed at every 1.2 meters.

The final structure is planned to measure 3.6m by 6 meters in plan.

Shigeru Ban developed the first paper shelters in 1994 to help the people displaced by the genocide in Rwanda.

The final structure is planned to measure 3.6m by 6 meters in plan.

The same system was assembled near the border of Ukraine’s neighboring countries to help the Ukrainian refugees displaced by the war.