Hiroshi Namakura & NAP   Japan   An anti-earhquake structure of crisscrossing larchwood beams form an origami-like space that opens on to a forest through a series of large glazed openings. 

Hiroshi Namakura & NAP   Japan   Two spiral staircases that meet 15.26 m above the ground give shape to the chapel, used for weddings; the structure absorbs vertical loads through pillars 10 cm in diameter and compensate the lateral ones with the mutual pressures of both helicoids..

Hiroshi Namakura & NAP   Japan   Totally artisanal, the 6,000 solid blocks of strained glass that form the facade were perforated with a blowtorch and inserted through auxiliary pieces of steel in 74 tensors hung from an upper beam.