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Foresting Architecture

Firm LocationOsaka, Japan
Project locationInside the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan site
Company TAKENAKA CORPORATION
Lead ArchitectAtsushi Yamazaki, Yukina Ohishi, Akitoshi Hamada
Design TeamMotoki Uchiyama, Tomonori Shibutani, Ryoutarou Sugimoto, Hiroyuki Masuda, Hiroshi Okuyama, Masayuki Mukouyama, Koutarou Nara, Kouzou Kimura, Junji Hamada, Takeshi Tsuchio, Takaaki Kurihara, Yuuki Idosako, Tooru Inaba, TAKENAKA CORPORATION + Izumi Okayasu, Izumi Okayasu Lighting Design + Yuma Harada, Hazuki Osumi, UMA / design farm
Client TAKENAKA CORPORATION
Projecthttps://foresting--architecture-jp.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ja&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Project Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFLPhqrMhys

"Foresting Architecture" is a rest shelter for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. Rather than architecture that becomes waste after a temporary event, this is architecture that everyone creates together, uses carefully while maintaining, and finally returns to soil to become forest. We designed a process fostering attachment to architecture through cutting-edge technology and mechanisms allowing anyone to participate. We aimed for regenerative architecture where this building helps transform Yumeshima, a former waste landfill, into forest after the Expo.