Paper Pavilion (2017, Denmark)
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Our winning proposal for Copenhagen Art Fair (@chart_artfair ) upcycles used papers collected from across the city of Copenhagen. Shifting away from any excessive architectural strength, we designed with the idea of appropriate durability; the pavilion lasts only for 3 days. Playful by design, it reintroduces paper as a sustainable material lasting for the duration of the event. It creates unique interactions with people visiting the largest Scandinavian art fair. As it wraps itself with papers collected locally, it showcases the vividity of urban activities on its facade. The structure is designed movable, allowing the pavilion to move to other cities to showcase the different urban identity. The pavilion was purchased later on to be a permanent collection of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg Museum, locates in the heart of Copenhagen.
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Photo(1~4)by @davidhugocabo
Photo(5)by @_yutastudio
Floating Pavilion (2019, Denmark)
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Supported by the Danish Art Foundation, Floating Pavilion Ø reintroduces Copenhagen’s canals as an extended new urban public space. The pavilion celebrates the city’s waterfront as an axis for urban activities. By bringing people together, the space wishes to initiate a sense of pride and commitment, for people to look after their natural environments. Although it aims at enhancing the beauty of natural phenomena created by water, it was envisioned as more than an aesthetic creation. Floating Pavilion invites users to re-imagine the potential future of their capital’s water spaces. At the intersection between social and cultural, Floating Pavilion Ø was completed in collaboration with the City of Copenhagen and the Cultural Harbour Festival.
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Photo(1,2) by @davidhugocabo
Photo(3-5) by Anika Kondo
The Playhouse (2021, Japan)
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The Playhouse is a renovation project of a three-storey building located in the fashion district of Aoyama in Tokyo, Japan. Conceived as an exploration into the future of physical shopping in an increasingly virtual post-COVID world, the project considers how to foster an experience between customer and brand that goes beyond the traditional display and transaction within a conventional shop, which is growingly being replaced online. The architecture is inspired by the notion of theatre and performance, with elements designed to allow the building to transform and adapt to a range of activities that can elevate the shopping experience. We envisage that the blend of programmes integrated into the physical design could provide a sustainable business and cultural model for the future of shopping.
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Photo(1,2,4,5)by Kenji Seo
Most mobile architecture is designed to feel temporary.
Lightweight. Detachable. Easy to move.
This one does the opposite.
Earthboat / Cave Mobile Cabin carries the presence of something permanent—
low, solid, almost embedded into the land.
It doesn’t sit on the site.
It feels like it’s been pressed into it.
And yet—it moves.
That’s where the project becomes interesting.
It borrows from two extremes:
The cave—heavy, protective, rooted.
The boat—light, adaptable, transient.
Instead of choosing one, it holds both.
The form curves and wraps like a natural enclosure,
creating a sense of shelter and thickness.
But beneath that perception is mobility—
a structure that can be relocated, repositioned, recontextualized.
You read it as permanent.
But it behaves as temporary.
And that tension changes how you understand it.
Because mobility doesn’t always have to look light.
And permanence doesn’t always have to be fixed.
Maybe architecture isn’t defined by what it is—
but by what it feels like versus how it actually works.
Earthboat Cave - Mobile Cabin
Tateshina, Japan
2025
Architecture: @pan_projects
Photography: Yuta Sawamura
Presskit available @bampr.co
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Our Project "Earthboat Cave" has been featured as a case study in IW傢飾 (@iw_magazine ) Issue 167 — a Taiwanese publication focused on space, architecture, and the human environment.
We are grateful to the editorial team for the thoughtful inclusion, and delighted to see the project reach readers across Taiwan and Asia.
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Project Photography: @_yutastudio
Each card was hand pressed by @studio.salina at the @londonbookarts .
Working with over 30 different paper stocks required responding to subtle differences in thickness, grain and texture. Rather than aiming for identical reproduction, each card required individual attention and pressure calibration.
The process became a quiet dialogue with the material: small adjustments, repeated many times, until every card found its balance.
A small object representing many possibilities.
Developed in collaboration with @studio.salina , the cards feature over 30 different paper stocks, each with subtle shifts in tone, texture and thickness. The design remains intentionally simple to allow the variety of the material to take centre stage.
On the front, ‘PAN-’ is foil stamped in black while ‘PROJECTS’ is blind embossed. By separating the two elements, the cards suggest that the concept of ‘Projects’ is open-ended: it can become many things depending on the ideas, collaborations and contexts that shape it.
Through the careful design and production by @studio.salina , the project explores how rich variation can emerge from a simple framework.
Incremental Fields
At the heart of the proposal is a bridge extended from the historic villa, housing the Memorial Museum within its span.
The bridge floats lightly above the pond, preserving the ground below for gardens to grow. Exhibition space is held between two slabs, softly curved, filtering daylight through louvres while drawing reflected light from the water and landscape.
Visitors cross the bridge through the museum and return along its roof, moving between past and future in one continuous gesture.
Architecture here is not replacement, but extension. A quiet addition to a place shaped by centuries.
Second Prize in invited competition.
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Collaborator:
Landscape design @oryza_fujiwara
Structural engineer @_arstr_
Incremental Fields
Developed for an invited competition in central Tokyo, this proposal rethinks a historic garden estate that has evolved since the 1600s.
Rather than introducing a new identity, we approached the site as a continuation of time. The garden, the villa, and the pond already carry centuries of incremental change. Our proposal reorganises the estate into three interconnected gardens, allowing the next layer of history to unfold.
The former museum footprint becomes a new field for inspiration, a space open to future generations. One of the proposed buildings was intentionally left undesigned, keeping the site open to other voices.
Second Prize in invited competition.
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Collaborator:
Landscape design @oryza_fujiwara
Structural engineer @_arstr_
Esta tiny móvil de 26 m² presenta un diseño sin cimientos hecho completamente de madera laminada cruzada (CLT) de cedro japonés que minimiza la perturbación del espacio y preserva el entorno natural.
Enfatiza la vida al aire libre con una gran ventana con vista, aberturas secundarias para ventilación y elementos exteriores como una sauna y chimeneas.
Su diseño compacto se centra en tres funciones: cocinar, descansar y observar la naturaleza, mientras que su construcción modular permite una fácil reubicación y adaptabilidad a diversos paisajes.
Nagano, Japón
Diseñado por @pan_projects
Las fotos son de @_yutastudio
A Quiet Timber Retreat in the Forest — Earthboat Cave by PAN- PROJECTS is a small lakeside cabin in Shirakabako designed as a gentle escape from urban life. Built entirely from Japanese cedar CLT, the structure is intentionally modest, offering warmth, shelter, and stillness while allowing nature to remain the focus.
Placed lightly among the trees without permanent foundations, the cabin preserves the landscape beneath it and reflects a low-impact approach to building. Inside, exposed timber surfaces age naturally over time, recording the passing seasons through subtle shifts in scent, tone, and texture. Large openings frame the lake and surrounding forest, bringing light and movement into the quiet interior.
The design encourages life to unfold outdoors, with open-air sauna access, fireplaces, and stepped gathering areas supporting a slower, more attentive way of inhabiting the landscape. More than a destination, it becomes a calm anchor for rest, reflection, and reconnection with nature.
Designed by @pan_projects
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