The warehouse of Inagawa Reien will provide functional support to the administrative wing and chapel designed by David Chipperfield Architects and scheduled for completion in 2017. Although visitors will have no reason to enter the warehouse at all, its placement at the entrance to the cemetery grounds means that visitors will see this building first. Since all visitors will arrive by automobile, a concept that could contribute to people?s periodic visits to their family graves was considered for those brief moments spent passing by the warehouse.

© Yasushi Ichikawa

Architects: Akira Koyama + Key Operation Inc

Location: Inagawa, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Co Architect: Akira Hanjo from Atelier Fish

Area: 95.32 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Yasushi Ichikawa

Client ? Developer: Boenfukyukai Foundation

Structural Engineer: Eisuke Mitsuda Structural Planning Laboratory

Quantity Survayor : GEN Architectural Management

Construction: Ichiyoshi Kougyou Co.,Ltd.

Materials: Exterior Charred cedar + Bengala (Iron Oxide) painted cedar Interior?Structural Plywood painted white

© Yasushi Ichikawa

The warehouse of Inagawa Reien will provide functional support to the administrative wing and chapel designed ...