Tending to Life: Ecology of Maintenance in Japan (Japan)

M.Arch Travel Award 2025
Rupal Singh
Manuscript of Maintenance

Manuscript of Maintenance

Tending to Life: Ecology of Maintenance in Japan

Japan

When maintenance is a way of life, architecture unfolds in dramatically different ways. Looking at systems across Japan, I observed maintenance as coexistence, cyclical, reciprocal, modular, sometimes laborious, aging and living.


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