The Tofuku temple, which lies at the back of high-rise buildings near Shibuya station in Tokyo, was first founded around 800 to 900 years ago during the Kamakura-period. It used to be able to see the Mt. Fuji from the inside of the shrine.

The project was to fundamentally reconstruct the graveyard and to design a corresponding new charnel house. The direct purposes were due to the several issues including circumstance beyond current system of Buddhist memorial service, location problem etc., but above all, it included the chief priest's questioning of " the Buddhism should be more open".

In particular following concerns are of importance:

-creating a value of a new charnel house in alternative to the typical stone pagoda-type; - designing an urban graveyard and charnel house where people can stop by casually; - increasing green space; - returningBuddhist artto a place of faith, and preserving the Buddhist iconography.

For structure, precast concrete is used for walls of family graves, with 100 mm thick ribs, pitched at 650mm intervals to become a built-in wall grave (PC grit). The PC walls on all sides are passing through from the basement to the rooftop.

Those walls are aimed to exist as furniture, Buddhist articles, and other tools in various spaces that might be required for the temple hall; thus, anchor bolts were built in every cross points of the ribs. A plan was placed around the four walls that is changing based on required functions and varying gaps between the other walls. Hopefully, this place will be memorial space for people who come and gather here.