Memorial Park

Abstract

Memorials are built to establish a connection between the present and the past, between life and death. They usually take the form of stone monuments; it is Kuma’s belief, however, that the solid form of a monument may intrude on the intimacy of real memories. Consequently, for this memorial dedicated to the late employees of a private company in Gumma Prefecture, he proposed instead a landscape garden. The computer system contained in this garden effectively links cyberspace and landscape and conceptually minimizes the presence of an object.