The lakeside cemetery in Sayama, Japan, was designed by local design studio Hiroshi Nakamura&NAP. The church will never be liked, because it is designed to hold sorrow and sorrow. In nature and prayer, the designer tries to find an answer that harmonizes grief. The pain of loss is so great that the typical defense mechanism sees it as unnatural. It is also a way to find solace in prayer, regardless of the denomination, and the design of Sayama Forest Church takes both elements into account.

The site is a small triangular plot of land that is adjacent to a municipal road with a low traffic and a non-legal street with almost no pedestrian.  Therefore, Designer have decided to create a space that devotes to the forest that is transcendent in its existence, by tilting the wall inward to avoid the tree branches and leaves.  

It forms a traditional Japanese Gassho- style structure composed three-dimensionally as two leaning beams set against each other are developed in every direction.  The roof is covered with cast-aluminum tiles with ripple-like textures each made by hands of craftsmen.

The floor inclined towards the forest by 1 centimeter guides people towards the departed and the forward bending posture for praying.  The patterns and seams of the slate extend towards the vanishing point deep into the forest to help one concentrate the mind on the forest.

When one prays, a small warm space is created within the hands as the fingers gently join. It seems as if that small space of prayer was taken out to form the architecture.  As people pray, so does the architecture.