in 1987, as a means of financing the design and construction of works of architecture (that draw on the mechanism of meaning), arakawa and gins founded the reversible destiny foundation. the foundation actively collaborates with practitioners in a wide range of disciplines including, experimental biology, neuroscience, quantum physics, experimental phenomenology, and medicine. their architectural projects included residences (bioscleave house (lifespan extending villa), reversible destiny lofts (in memory of helen keller) – mitaka, tokyo, japan), parks (site of reversible destiny-yoro) and plans for housing complexes and neighborhoods (reversible destiny fun house, boom-lgbt community, isle of reversible destiny-venice and isle of reversible destiny-fukuoka, sensorium city, tokyo).