Shigeru Ban’s Paper Partition System for Earthquake Refugees

The design community continues to rally in support for victims of the 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami. Local resident and architect Shigeru Ban recently announced that he was accepting donations towards his partitioning system, a low-cost, highly effective system than can be deployed to provide basic insulation and privacy amongst families who have lost their homes.
With an estimated 400,000 displaced, the temporary housing solution is a simple yet significant change that can help families, who traditionally maintain thin neighborly relations and high levels of privacy, live their lives a bit more normally.