Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Paper tea house for sale

dezeen reports that the paper and cardboard tea house above by Shigeru Ban will be auctioned tomorrow (Thursday) by Phililips de Pury with a pre-sale estimate of £20,000 – 30,000. They describe it as a tea house, constructed of square paper tubes, designed for indoor use measuring just over 5 meters long. Housing a table and four stools, the house also features a waiting area with a bench in keeping with tea ceremony practice. They continue:
"The architect’s ‘paper architecture’ comprises an ongoing series of structures using paper tubes as the main building material. Spanning a number of uses from multiple refugee housing solutions for disaster zones in Rwanda, Japan, India and Turkey to a collaboration with Frei Otto for the Japan Pavilion at the Hanover Expo in 2000 to his current satellite office that that sits on the roof of the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the use of paper by Shigeru Ban has been a pivotal design solution with firm ethical footing.

"Low-tech, adaptable and recyclable, the paper constructions address the current trend of high-tech, high-impact and unattainable design that has been so prevalent in the contemporary architecture. In addition, the use of the material presents, in each application, an engineering challenge that Shigeru Ban continually masters. His paper tube buildings have been admired for the ultimate breakaway from the confines of traditional materials to create light-filled, stimulating buildings with unsurpassed sophistication."

1 comment:

  1. The idea of making a house out of paper is pure genius and is very good for the environment. I'm loving the idea.

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