Birch Moss Chapel

Kengo Kuma and AssociatesNagano, Japan2015

We built a small chapel in Karuizawa aiming for its presence to be blended into the nature of birch trees. By combining the steel and the trunk of the birch, we designed a structure that might be mistaken for a real birch tree. Branches of a birch are extremely thin, but we stood them at random in the site to support the glass roof of the chapel, and the border between the forest and the building disappeared. Benches in the chapel are made of glass and acrylic, and we spread moss on the floo

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