Architect Shigeru Ban works with an interesting material. It’s paper, certainly not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about building materials. It’s comparatively weak to modern building materials, it’s not fireproof, and certainly now waterproof, so why? It’s cheap, easy to build, produces little to no waste and is easily accessible, reasons Shigeru Ban.
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should your text say “now waterproof” , or “not waterproof”?
Can you post some kind of link and image that relates to shigeru ban?
thanks for the original post!