Shigeru Ban has released plans for his “Nepal Project”—modular, wood-framed structures that can be assembled quickly and easily, to house victims of this April’s devastating earthquakes in Nepal that left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Ban’s design calls for 3-by-7-foot wooden frames, filled with rubble bricks. After securing a plastic sheet on top of the paper-tube roof truss (Ban’s signature material), people can simultaneously inhabit and build the structures by stacking additional bricks inside the frames.
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