Ise Jingu
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Intro paragraph - A spiritual cycle of 20 years has led to a highly developed wood building technique. Timber is sourced locally and shrines are still built by hand using traditional tools. After each cycle, the shrines are deconstructed and the timber is either repurposed in other shrines or repurposed as religious relics.Research Lens
Primary Theme
Knowledge Transmission
Construction System
Traditional Timber
Research Question
Can continuity exist without material permanence?
Contemporary Relevance
Design for Disassembly
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ReflectionResearch Takeaways
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Knowledge can be preserved
without preserving material.
Renewal is a design strategy,
not simply a maintenance task.
Craft traditions depend on
intentional repetition.
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