“The building is intended as a center for exhibiting and studying the culture of the Age

of Tumuli, and my proposal was to create an environmental museum that incorporates

not only the Tumuli scattered around the site but the natural environment of the burial
mounds.”
Tadao Ando
 The 60 meters wide and
12 meters long stone-
paved roof.

enormous stairway may

be transformed into a
stage, outdoor lecture
hall or simply a wide
viewing platform

The building has been conceived as a hill from which one can see the entire excavated area..
building area : 3,407.84m2