Miniature Tree Chapel
Completion: 2022
Location: Niigata Prefecture
Host tree: Japanese red pine
Use: Kindergarten playground equipment
Design and construction: Mutsumi Log Cabin + Minomushi Kenchiku
Video introduction: https://youtu.be/9sMfsJhxMCI
Overview of the project: A tree house built in the bamboo grove within the school grounds.
You enter the field through an entrance gate made of bundles of growing bamboo, then cross a single-bridge balance beam, then a suspension bridge, and into a house made of woven bamboo called the "Time Zone." Beyond that, you can slide down a slide that leads to the bamboo forest.