By constructing the whole site to enclose the architecture with the small surrounding hills, the boundary between everybody lives and "Hare" of wedding ceremony was represented. The bride and groom are led to the corridor through the knolls, crossing the pond to the interior space of the chapel. The landscape consisting of the knolls, pond and trees, attempts to create harmony between the form of chapel and environment in the circumference. This is intended to emphasise the significance of the surrounding space. The rood which established 450 millimeters slit for the body, approaches to the altar, while the external wall in the oval plan leans toward the 7 degrees to the above, and the interior space of chapel is elevated.
The roof was constructed by webs of CT steel and edge of flat steel bars which are exposed, this is intended to gently express the design of the structure. The approach corridor is set at a 35 degrees angle to the main body of architecture, forming the space of " interface" between the chapel and waiting room side. It was made to carry the role of switching to the solemn feeling on approach to the chapel. The cross of light by the slit was established on the front face in the chapel. The large windows of both sides adopts the outside views, and it has created the space with "faint strain" which projects the fluctuation of the reflected light of the ripple of the pond on both wall surface and ceiling.
Location: Akiu, Sendai, Miyagi,Japan
Principal use: Chapel
Finished time: 1996.10
Site area: 28.913 m²
Total floor area: 308m²
Structure: reinforced concrete(bearing wall)
partly steel structure(lattice roof) 1 story
