Kenichi Takashima, Takefumi Doi, Kensuke Harada (TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers)

Kobe has a characteristic topography enclosed between the Seto Inland Sea and Mount Rokko. The concept was for a building at this site that would pass on the history of the land, and that exists together with eternal time. A building that is an”extension of the ground” has been realized by reviewing the materials and constructionmethods from which the building is composed, so as to imitate the topography of Kobe,produce a building rooted in Kobe, and will become covered in greenery with the passage oftime and gradually return to nature.