Cover image of The perpetual care grave at Fukuden-ji Temple

Data

Location
Odawara, Japan
Team
Megumi Matsubara, Hiroi Ariyama
Completion year
2025
Client
Fukuden-ji Temple
Purpose
Perpetual memorial grave
Site area
225 sqm
Project period
2023 - 2025
Collaborators
Structural engineer: Hirotsugu Tsuboi Structural Engineering Company Inc.
Construction company: Hamano Construction

A form arises to lay the departed to rest, where their souls are eternally honoured and embraced.
It is a threshold where one may gently commune with spirits once of this world, now returned to the earth.

A circle, hovering just above the ground, becomes the meeting place of life and death.
Upon its mirrored waters, the sky gathers its light— a luminous boundary binding past and present.

Shaped through stone and water, earth and grass, and the play of light itself, the ground becomes a sanctuary of remembrance, where the departed are tenderly mourned.

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