Name: 【TEDx】Emergency shelters made from paper: Shigeru Ban at TEDxTokyo
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making buildings out of paper like this cardboard tube,

and this exhibition is the first one I did using paper tubes.

1986, much, much longer before people started talking

about ecological issues and environmental issues,

in order to use this as a building structure.

It's very complicated to test the new material for the building,

but this is much stronger than I expected,

Then I built the temporary structure, 1990.

This is the first temporary building made out of paper.

There are 330 tubes, diameter 55 [centimeters],

there are only 12 tubes with a diameter of 120 centimeters,

As you see it in the photo, inside is the toilet.

In case you're finished with toilet paper,

you can tear off the inside of the wall. (Laughter)

Year 2000, there was a big expo in Germany.

because the theme of the expo was environmental issues.

So I was chosen to build the pavilion out of paper tubes,

My goal of the design is not when it's completed.

My goal was when the building  was demolished,

because each country makes a lot of pavilions

but after half a year, we create a lot of industrial waste,

so my building has to be reused or recycled.

Then I was very lucky to win the competition

to build the second Pompidou Center in France in the city of Metz.

Because I was so poor, I wanted to rent an office in Paris,

but I couldn't afford it, so I decided to bring my students to Paris

to build our office on top of the Pompidou Center in Paris

So we brought the paper tubes and the wooden joints

We stayed there for six years without paying any rent.

even if my friend wanted to see me, they had to buy a ticket to see me.

Then I completed the Pompidou Center in Metz.

and I created a big monument for the government.

because we are not helping, we are not working for society,

but we are working for privileged people,

So they hire us to visualize their power and money

That is our profession, even historically it's the same,

So I was very disappointed that we are not working for society,

who lost their houses by natural disasters.

But I must say they are no longer natural disasters.

For example, earthquakes never kill people,

but collapse of  the buildings kills people.

but there are no architects working there

because we are too busy working for privileged people.

we can be involved in the reconstruction of temporary housing.

So that is why I started working in disaster areas.

1994, there was a big disaster in Rwanda, Africa.

Two tribes, Hutu and Tutsi, fought each other.

But I was so surprised to see  the shelter,

and they are freezing with blankets during the rainy season.

they were just providing a plastic sheet,

and the refugees had to cut the trees, and just like this.

That is why they started providing aluminum pipes, aluminum barracks.

Very expensive, they throw them out for money,

So I proposed my idea to improve the situation

because this is so cheap and also so strong,

but my budget is only  50 U.S. dollars per unit.

We built 50 units to do that as a monitoring test

for the durability and moisture and termites and so on.

And then, a year afterward 1995 in Kobe, Japan,

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