Memorial landscape. Resilience through time and landscape
Description
The project is based on 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and aims at building a landscape that evokes the memory of the past in Rikuzentakata area, and contributes to delaying the unpredictable tsunami in the future. The water: The proposal introduces a strategy of “changeable landscape” structure that move with water dynamics, using water itself as a design element to shape different memory gardens. The memory: The art of memory is in relation to the art of garden. The land’s memory and individual’s memory are collected and transformed into landscape elements for people to experience stories of past and future.