Dormitory Common Area Size:XS built from local hardwood and

built from local hardwood and galvanised iron to last a working lifetime

dust catching in shafts of light above the worn surface

and a canteen alongside the main precision manufacturing factory

with a 65-foot oven and ceiling-mounted conveyor belts carrying loaves through a cooling cycle overhead

Seika Dormitory stood sealed in Bunkyo-ku for another six years before demolition in 2013

Dormitory Common Area Size:XS built from local hardwood andThe common area of Seika Dormitory sits stripped and still, peeling paint and grimy windows the only evidence of the domestic life once organised around this space. Built in 1927 by the Gakuso Foundation to house Taiwanese students studying in Tokyo, the reinforced concrete building operated for 80 years before a 2007 fire displaced its remaining residents. Part of the Seika Dormitory series.