A recent collaboration between Kengo Kuma ,the Community of Sant’Egidio, , Itlainas for Tohoku volunteer association, the Embassy of Italy in Japan, and Kuma Lab of the University of Tokyo, proposes a project of public utility: a new meeting center for the elderly people in Rikuzentakata, a city which was almost entirely destroyed by the 11 March,2011.tsunami, one of the most devastating tsunamis recorded in history.