The Great East Japan Earthquake and following terrible tsunami devastated the coastal area of ​​the Pacific Ocean in Tōhoku and Kantō areas. Many towns and villages were lost in an instant. As architects and urban designers, we acknowledged menace of the nature and incompetency of human being, facing the terrible disasters. For all that, we believe in architecture to construct new relationship between towns and the nature for next generations. For that, what we have to do is to recognize and grasp what was lost by the tsunami. We keep our imagination for full and enriched daily lives led in the towns and villages in order to mourn them. Through the project, we hope local people of the struck areas and we can take a first step toward reconstruct the homes.

The project aims at restoring lost towns and villages by 1:500 scale models in order to inherit and preserve memories accumulated in local scenery, environment and life.

Volunteer architecture students and university laboratories made the models, calling for joining all forces of local inhabitants and those who wish reconstruction of lost towns and villages.