Reconnecting with our dear departed

[ad_1] By Savitha Hira with inputs from Sonal Mamoowala Photography: Masao Nishikawa; courtesy the architect Read Time: 2 mins   . The Charnel House in Ryusenji Temple, Japan is an ossuary designed to keep pace with contemporary mindsets; without blurring the boundaries of religious sentiments… Architect Yukio Asari of Love Architecture Inc. believes that ‘time’ and ‘space’ for revisiting the dead should be transcendent and beyond human knowledge. Substantiating his belief, he redesigns an old, rarely used temple at a graveyard complex, where Yukio proposes a unique way of visiting the dead with a new perspective for ancestral reverence.  .. The […]