MEMORIAL TO TSUNAMI VICTIMS

The project proceeds by developing a layering of traces and an overlapping of viewpoints, which generate the elements of the complex: the memorial, the bamboo surface, the pavilion, and the museum. The intent is to create a “Land Art” sculpture, revisited with the sensitivity and naturalness of a child. The architecture is transformed into an individual experience, which takes on commemorative significance through the use of perspective as a metaphor for the moment of disaster, and through the use in an expressive key of bamboo, enriched with symbolic and evocative meanings. The hillside slope is covered with a large installation that recalls the idea of a reedbed. The tall bamboo rods, bent like reeds in the wind, recreate a landscape that is possible to walk through. The rods project thin beams of light upward at night to remember the innocent victims.