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White Church / LAD

September 18, 2017 罗靖琳 0

This project is located in the public park at city center. Through research into the city population structure and the spiritual and cultural background, LAD discovered that fickle era made people expect to have a peaceful and bright space, whether they are followers or not. Under this background, the stylist took into account of the economic cost of client and  the local culture, to establish this White Church as a building of spiritual symbol.

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Asahi Kindergarten Phase I & Phase II / Tezuka Architect

September 18, 2017 Cristobal Rojas 0

The original Asahi Kindergarten was lost in the Tohoku earthquake on 11 March 2011. Tezuka Architects, funded by Japan Committee for UNICEF, designed and reconstructed the Asahi Kindergarten on a highland area by using the huge trees that killed by the salt water of 2011 tsunami. These trees have meaningful symbols for the local villagers as they were planted along the approach to Daioji Temple, the main temple on the hill which its height is just enough to elude tsunamis in the long history. Many villagers survived because the priest of the temple used to teach them to escape to the temple.