The Paper Nursery School

After an earthquake in Ya'an City, Sichuan, China, on April 20th, 2013, the Miao Miao Nursery School building was declared uninhabitable.  Members of the school, with the help of students from Kyoto University of Art and Design, responded by building a paper tube structure as a temporary home for the school.  Within a floor plan size of 6 meters by 21 meters, two classrooms were organized facing each other divided by a central corridor. A trussed roof composed of paper tubes and steel L-angles made it possible to create a column-free interior space. Check out the intriguing photos of this project.

Contributed by Zvia Dover

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