kengo kuma: ando hiroshige museum / bamboohouse (on the left) by structuring the architecture according to a wooden grid system, these building becomes a 'sensor' of light, since, with the changing illumination of the space, the grid also alters its essence, sometimes it forms a solid, translucent plane, at other times a transparent one. (on the right) 'bamboohouse', the use of bamboo as both a structural and non-structural element. the purpose of these projects is to rediscover and re-express the true essence of japanese architecture.