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Ando Hiroshige is an artist who represents "ukiyoe" paintings in a history of Japanese Art. His original pieces of work were discovered numerously from a storehouse of Aoki residence after the Hanshin Earthquake (January 1995). These original pieces found after the Earthquake have been donated to the city of Batoh in Tochigi Prefecture where Aoki family lays its deep relation. The purpose of our project, consequently, was to plan a museum which contains the spirit and works of Hiroshige for the city. The museum is composed of series of wooden-structured grids, both in terms of the roof and the walls. Along with change of light which pours into the space, the grid also alters its essence: Sometimes the patterns of grid transforms into a solid translucent plane, whereas sometimes, it transforms into a transparent plane.