Structural engineer Mutsuro Sasaki’s progject “Forest of meditation” was built in 2006. The architect was Toyo Ito and associtates and the location is Kagamigahara Gifu, Japan.
“The Idea began with a series of simple sketches of a flowing reinforced concrete shell which combined a billowing structure and columns struck as a single, uniform surface. It was conceived, Ito says, “It is not as a conventional massive crematorium but as architecture of a spacious roof floating above the site like slowly drifting clouds, creating a soft field”.”
The materiel that they used was reinforced concrete and steel tubes, as it was the most economic. They used steel curved reinforced bars for the perfect form of the curves.
References
Architectural Details: Toyo Ito’s Flowing Concrete Canopy – Architizer Journal. (2018, December 13). Retrieved from https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/stories/architectural-details-toyo-ito/
Enhuong. (2011, September 29). @Forest of meditation. Retrieved from https://14jsc-wordpress-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/14jsc.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/forest-of-meditation/amp/
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