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To welcome guests at the entrance of the newly built annex, the walls made of particular locally produced materials with warm texture was installed. Rocks brought from strata of ore called a pegmatite which is the source of a mineral spring were courteously separated by type and a firefly wall with sparkling mica was finished by a Plasterer. Every time a guest passes, sparkly light leads them to the hot spring.

The First-Term Entrance and Wall Surface Greening for Community Base in Hiroshima, Minagarten
The building which used to be a wholesale gardening market was renovated and a shared kitchen and a garden were added to it. Stewartia Monadelpha and Vitex Agnus-Castus that have been familiar to people as a garden tree were planted in the approach space and Quercus Glauca and Fatsia Japonica creating mountain atmosphere were planted on the opposite side to make this front garden grow with the place and to appeal local people stop by with relaxed feeling.
The vivid-colored greening wall facing the shared kitchen is a garden for people of future residence zone and a partly common planting area with warmth of a garden. The wall changing its expression on daily basis has become a fascinating place to appeal people to come back and visit again.

The garden with Japanese mind located in U.S. has been created in collaboration with the specialists of an international gardener and plasterer. The garden of Suikinkutsu (water lyre) as a modern and universal garden was planned based on oriental thoughts to tune minds and bodies of people visiting the garden. Also rammed earth walls as a sound-reflecting wall have just been completed. The project is still ongoing.

As a unit called “shok・shok”, NITTA Rie, a herbalist and I held a monthly continuous workshop of Eating and Planting to enrich people’s minds and bodies adopting the idea of taking Wakan (Japanese herbs) into daily life. The project was organized in collaboration with a restaurant with a natural farm, Maruta in Chofu city. At the third workshop titled “Herbal Ball for Full-Moon”, participants learnt the effect of each herb and picked three different kinds of herb to make their own herbal balls. They brought them back home and enjoyed the seasonal event of enjoying harvest moon with their own herbal balls at home.

In indoor coworking space, space like a spot field that changes its expression all the time was created in collaboration with the architectural unit, PEAK STUDIO instead of a spot garden, following a theme of “Prodigality Existing in Heterogeneity”.

I joined the project as a TPOD collaborator.

I joined the project as a TPOD collaborator.

I joined the project as a TPOD collaborator.

I joined the project as a TPOD collaborator.