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 Kenji Aoike Construction of the Paper Loghouse In Shinminatogawa Park 1995 Japan 1999, 20' The earthquake that hit Kobe on 17 January 1995 was a devastating event. After that disaster, Shigeru-Ban, the creator of this video, decided to offer his help to the volunteers who aided in the reconstruction process of the most devastated areas. Many people continued to live in plastic tents regardless of the fact that the Japanese government had provided more secure temporary housing. This gave birth to the project Paper Loghouse. Houses for the victims had to be structures which were easy to construct and deconstruct and supplied with sanitary systems. The foundations for these houses were constructed with cases of beer filled with plastic sacks and the walls consisted of tubes of paper, while the plastic tents were used as floors and roofs. All of the materials used were recyclable. Fortunately, the first loghouse was well received by the local population and there followed the decision to construct many more. Due to problems of public grounds, the materials for the houses were kept hidden between the walls of a dilapidated church in order to avoid government intervention. Furthermore, all of the houses had to be built in one day by no more than ten volunteers per house. The date and place in which the constructions took place have remained concealed. The event is referred to merely as "Day X." Kenji Aioke, born in Nagoya in 1941, received his first recognition as a film creator at the Tokyo Educational Film Festival where he won the Gold Prize Award in 1976. The video presented here is part of a complex project called Northern Noda Area People in Takatori and it is devoted to documenting the reconstruction process after the Kobe earthquake. Shigeru-Ban, born in Tokyo in 1957, studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and later worked Arata Isozaki in Tokyo. Since 1995 he has taught architecture at the Yokohama National University and since 1997 at Nihon University. |
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