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Movable Shinto Shrine / Kikuma Watanaeb + D Environmental Design System Laboratory

Cristobal Rojas — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000

This is a self-built portable shrine in a depopulated village in the moutain region of Kochi in Japan. In 2015, the pre-existing shrine called Kanamine-jinja was deeply injured by a heavy typhoon that hit the village. The Kanamine Shinto shrine had two architectural components: one is the front shrine dedicated to worshipers while the other was the rear shrine, where main shrine was set.

Self-build Shinto Shrine / Kikuma Watanabe

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:00:00 +0000

This is the self-built temporary Shinto shrine in a depopulated village in the mountainous area of kochi in Japan. For over 200 years the village used to have nine houses making up the kanamine shinto community, with a shrine set up in the upper part of the forest. However, the village started to lose its population, resulting in only one house and a neglected shrine that in 2015 was deeply injured by a heavy typhoon. In 2016 the worship structure faced a crisis and collapsed, so the inhabitants, together with the Kochi University of Technology located nearby, decided to construct a temporary shrine in the houses area.

Passive House with Sundial / Kikuma Watanabe

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:00:00 +0000

Home between Earth and Sky- Passive house with Sundial.

Floating in the Sky School for Orphans / Kikuma Watanabe

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 18 May 2015 20:00:13 +0000

This school aims to help alleviate poverty in Shangkhaburi village, Thailand, located near the border of Myanmar. There are a lot of immigrants and orphans in this area. They are so poor that they cannot raise their children themselves.