< How the Project Has Started and Progressed >
	In June, 1995, we learned that a great number of people were still forced to live in shabby tents in parks nearby their destroyed houses even six months after the earthquake. Many of them did not move to temporary housing provided by the city because those houses were located inconveninetly, very far from their offices and schools of their children.
	We immediately designed Paper Log House and built the first unit by ourselves in Minamikoma Park, Nagata-ku, Kobe at the beginning of July. The area occupied by this temporary house, 16 square meters per unit, is almost as big as the size of a standard refugee shelter designated by the UNCHR.
	The first Paper Log House was welcomed by people in Kobe. With the help of a support group for Vietnamese people suffering from the damage of the earthquake, 21 units of Paper Log Houses were built by Japanese and Vietnamese volunteers in various palces. (updated data is to be added).
	We have found that Paper Log House has a number of merits as temporary housing for the victims of disasters. Material cost is very low. The materials and parts can be procured on site. It can be easily built or dismantled in a short period of time even by people with no knowledge of building construction and is recyclable. For local governments, the greatest merit is that they do not have to have a stock of materials and parts for this type of temporary housing. That is, they can save costs for storage and transportation.

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