International design competition. Awarded the Fourth Prize. The city of Minamata decided to build a memorial for the victims of the environmental disaster in the 1950‘s. The disaster was caused by the polluting of the sea shore by the local chemical factory, during which people contracted toxic   substances by eating polluted fish of this prevailing fishing town. Over several years, more that two thousand people are said to have died from this accident, not counting the deforming effects on many people, especially children. The site is located on a hill overlooking the ocean bay. The design takes in the triangularity of the site where a park is proposed by raising and leveling a portion of the land. A wide ramp offers access to the new green area characterized by a sequence of “open rooms”. These are created by a series of double rows of bamboo trees at either side of two consecutive mirrors of water. Small bridges span these pools and are enlarged with a curvature on the side toward the sunset which occurs over the ocean bay to allow people to stop, observe and meditate. These open rooms are in fact directed east-west visually connecting the city to the water, raising the paradigmatic meaning of these two elements.