Japanese team builds temporary paper school buildings for earthquake victims
November 15th, 2008 by James
A very cool project that delivered instant school buildings to earthquake victims:
This May, a massive earthquake rocked Sichuan Province in China. Reaching a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale, it claimed the lives of 400,000 people. Half a year later, though the destruction seems to have lost its newsworthiness, the reconstruction is still very much a reality. However, it doesn’t have to be hopeless! How about a temporary shelter made of paper? In Chengdu city in Sichuan, students from Japanese banlab, architect Shigeru Ban’s research center, and the Hironori Matsubara Lab at Keio University used cardboard tubes to build temporary school buildings.
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And then a typhoon came…..
Or worse, a herd of goats.
it’ll b funny if they made the house using Origami
Explain to me again why CHINA, the biggest freaking nation on the planet with the largest population needs outside help to rebuild their OWN schools?
Funny how the Japanese help rebuild schools in China for the PRC govt to further indoctrinate anti-Japanese feelings through the very school.