After exploring more than 30 schemes in a search for sacred space for the site, watercolor drawings of intersecting circles with their inherent universal properties and suggestive circulation typologies gradually became intersecting spheres. Model studies which yielded amazing overlapping perspectives created an astonishing spatial energy.
The geometry of intersected spheres refers back to a rich ancient history of symbolism. In the I Ching, the earth is represented as a square and the heavens as a circle.
The intersecting spheres are embedded in a rectangular plan topped by a sheet of water, pulling the ocean horizon into the composition.
Natural light is brought into the building section via openings in the intersecting spheres. Urn shelving, which occupies most of the building's section, is arranged in different typologies: radial, circular, and orthogonal.
Construction of the Oceanic Pavilion is in white concrete. Hinoki wood is used for doors and partitions. The arrival building, with its 21 room hotel and restaurant takes the shape of the allotted plot extruded into four levels with spherical subtractions.