Ibaraki Prefecture
Japan
2011
Parking Lot
In the parking lot, the crack in unavoidable. In the coastal town of Naka, the quake tore through the streets and parking lots with ease. The crumbled, cracked terrain now embodies the everyday space of the parking lot.
Fukushima Prefecture
Japan
2011
Community Center
The the Tanashio Meeting House, the crack is on display as a public architecture. This community center expresses the grief of locals where repair becomes part of cultural and collective memory.
Fukushima Prefecture
Japan
2011
House
Domestic repair becomes slower, selective, and negociated. This home was not only scarred with damage from the quake, but lives with deathly levels of radiation from the Fukushima Power Plant meltdown.