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Shigeru Ban, the Japanese designer, master of light and the green recycling became popular in Japan in 1995 when he designed and built, large-scale, affordable housing and rapid assembly in the Kobe earthquake, using as an essential raw material tubes made from recycled paper. He designed the homes of 16 square meters, with walls made from cardboard tubes and boxes for foundation consist of beer bottles filled with sand. Similar techniques were also used to temporarily rebuild the church of Takatori and the Japanese pavilion presented the exhibition in Hanover in 2000. E 'own use of paper and paperboard, non-conventional materials in the field of design and architecture that have made him one of the brightest young architects on the international scene. Minimalism and experimentation related to sustainability are the constants within which the architect is moving east, in sharp contrast to the hi-tech variation of much contemporary architecture. Some months ago, the Japanese architect, member of the Voluntary Architects Network, had offered to design the reconstruction of the Conservatory of L'Aquila: the construction was partly fimanziata and partly by the Japanese financial groups in Europe. A opportunities for the region of Abruzzo of reaching an extraordinary project of modern architecture in a region where the state of architecture seem permanently lost. The Italian state has preferred to win a firm of metal, with the offer down and without insurance on any safety and acoustics of the complex, the contract expiring Sept. 22 at 13. Some reporters have interviewed the Civil Defence which is justified by saying that "the contract was not closed", and this Sept. 25, three days after the official closing date and went on to say "without prejudice to the partial funding provided by Japan, 500 thousand €, there are no other resources, much less from abroad to cover the remaining cost of the work. It was therefore considered to make a public tender - concluded the Department - to ensure, as always, the utmost transparency in the use of public funds. " But listening to the architect Alessandro Marcello Boldrini, assistant Shigeru Ban another truth emerges: "Ban has sent the draft to foundations and most important financial groups in Europe. All agreed to support it. "How can this happen? "The culture of poverty won" but not in Italy, when the houses are born to speculation of a group of individuals against other individuals, things, in this case, the houses can be built with "love", hence the sense of misery and squalor of certain buildings that all have a sense of provisional malate. Inhabited waiting to go on.