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Rachel's Forest
2013
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Rachel’s Forest, located in central Osaka near Umeda Station, bridges the city’s contrasting urban densities: high-rise commercial areas to the south and low-rise residential zones to the north. Designed to support the emerging bio-technology economy, the project integrates a 10-hectare park with facilities for education, health, and research, alongside a vaulted seedbank beneath the park.
Key information
Client
City Planning Bureau, the City of Osaka
Location
Osaka-shi, Japan
Status
Design
Sectors
Infrastructure
Services
Urban
Programmes
Urban forest - urban regeneration transport hub into ‘disaster prevention area’
Building surface
500,000 m2
Building site
16 ha.