Meant to be a place for reflection, silence, and prayer, and for a community whose members practice different religions, this underground chapel disappears in the landscape of San Antonio Baspul, a locality within the municipality of Chicxulub Pueblo
In Ube, a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, stands this cave house with a small restaurant included that was built for a chef. When the restaurant is closed, its dining area doubles as a family room and the owners’ children can do their homework there.
The only visible portion of the building in the landscape is a narrow band of 200 meters and amber tones; there, a clay ramp enclosed in polished concrete walls leads to the recreation of the Paleolithic cave and its paintings... [+]
Through an intervention that respects local techniques and materials, twelve caves have been transformed into as many rooms of a hotel that blends in with the surroundings.
