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[149] Kenzo Tange’s “Lumbini Sacred Garden -Birthplace of Buddha” through the process as the UN project

until the completion of final outline design for Lumbini in 1972

○Tomoko Mori¹, Takefumi Kurose², Yukio Nishimura³ (1. Sapporo City University, 2. Kyushu University, 3. Kokugakuin University)

Keywords:Lumbini, Kenzo Tange, United Nations, Development Plan, World Heritage

This paper aims to reconsider Kenzo Tange’s “Lumbini Sacred Garden -Birthplace of Buddha” through the process as the United Nation’s project. The research method is based mainly on the reports’ review in order to understand its very early stage, especially from the United Nations Archives and the ex-stuffs of Kenzo Tange & Urtec at those days. The study divided the early stage into three stages, 1)the project framing period, 2)the period of design outline by Kenzo Tange and 3)the final design period, and focused on the 1^st and 2^nd period. As a result, the study clarified that the Kenzo Tange’s “Lumbini Sacred Garden -Birthplace of Buddha” was a part of the regional master plan in the UN mission report (Kobe report) in 1968. It also clarified the planning intention of the framework through the original idea of design before Kenzo Tange.