Book garden between twin tunnels

This is a small reading room stocked with childrens books by Shinta Cho. Shinta Cho is one of the most important picture book writer in Japan. This reeding room is located in passage space of the 21 century museum of contemporary art KANAZAWA. Nestled within the starkly white spaces of the museum, I have created a narrow passageway of crisscrossing wooden beams painted in a distinctive vermilion hue that recalls both the entrance to a Shinto shrine and the steeply sloping pitch roofs of primitive house dwellings. Visitors pass through this zone of transition and emerge into a kind of sacred grove, where they can browse Cho s delightfully whimsical manga fairytales at their leisure.
This space seems to be the secret garden where various dreams within Cho s books are blooming.

Site area 52.76m2
Building area(twin tunnels) 25.37m2
Total floor area 34.38m2
Structure wood