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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.

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