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Sachimine Masui
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Green Chapel

A proposal of a green chapel for a private clinic in Rome. The idea is to utilize a section of the front yard of the clinic as a space for resting, contemplating and praying, an enclosed quiet garden.

The chapel will be composed of fundamental garden elements: sky, green walls, gravel ground, natural light and existing pine trees. At the innermost of the chapel is a 'rose window', a hole in the green wall covered with rose. This is an interpretation of a rose window of a church: a means of introducing natural light to illuminate the inner self of each person. Beyond the rose window is an open sky-horizon, a witness of both universality (sky, light and air) and particularity (landscape of Monti Lucretini toward Tivoli).