Kitchen Colour:Black Poole & Gibson

Poole & Gibson

The study room is part of the former Yubari Municipal Asahi Elementary School in Fukuzumi

rust blooming across the barrel

The building served the children of Chichibu Mine's workforce from 1952 until it closed in March 1984

dust catching in shafts of light above the worn surface

Kitchen Colour:Black Poole & GibsonThe kitchen at Seika Dormitory sits as it was left: rusting pots and pans still on the stove, light falling through broken windows onto dust covered surfaces. Built in 1927 by the Gakuso Foundation to house Taiwanese students studying in Tokyo, the building stood sealed and abandoned for six years after a July 2007 fire displaced its final residents. Part of the Seika Dormitory series.