Entombment of Fear

Kyra Swee Yew Yong

Formwerkz Architects & National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore

Entombment of Fear: A Progressive Architectural Movement Towards a Nuclear-free Japan, 2020

SketchUp, Vray, Photoshop

‘The site for this project is the recently recommissioned Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant on the east coast of Japan. There is a high likelihood of an earthquake hitting the region and causing a nuclear disaster like that of Fukushima. The project dwells on the theme of our response to the unmeasurable force of such disasters. Its uncanny appearance, associated with Shinto religion, is intended to provoke a sense of fear of their unimaginable impact.’