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Therefore, the particular concern towards those materials whose reasoned employment, enhancing their<br />

features of resistance, enables an unusual use for contemporaneity, even if strongly rooted in the past,<br />

contributing to the realization of architectonic structures that are easily disposable <strong>and</strong> recyclable, <strong>and</strong><br />

therefore eco-sustainable.<br />

The research work by Shigeru Ban is undertaken in this direction. Ban addresses his structural research<br />

towards paper <strong>and</strong> cardboard, materials of the Japanese building tradition, re-evaluated not only for<br />

obviously functional creations, but also authentically formal ones, based on a contemporary aesthetic that<br />

counts on the rationality of geometry <strong>and</strong> that is grounded on the affirmation “all that is logical is possible,<br />

<strong>and</strong> I can realize it if I manage to show it”. [6]<br />

"The use of paper structures led to a very free system of thought about composition <strong>and</strong> methodological<br />

research. Ban affirm: this freedom is what allows me to take so much pleasure in what I do, allowing me to<br />

search for lightness in architecture through the study of structures, materials <strong>and</strong> all can be reduced <strong>and</strong><br />

diminished in quantity.<br />

This demonstrates a great deal of trust in man's critical abilities, in the ability to offer incentives, united with<br />

the skills of rationality that are typical of man as engineer, who builds in order to respond to needs, not only<br />

functional, but also a search for a new aesthetic that is forever filled with great enthusiasm <strong>and</strong> a positive<br />

attitude". [6]<br />

Once again, they are possibilities bound to reason, allowing the transversal exchange between the idea <strong>and</strong><br />

the signs of environment <strong>and</strong> that are realized in architectonic objects that stimulate human perception <strong>and</strong><br />

the relationships with the context, triggering verification processes <strong>and</strong> activating a development based on<br />

human potential that is closely interrelated with the environment.<br />

Fig. 5: Shigeru Ban, Japan Pavillon, Hannover Expo 2000.<br />

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