Detritus

• Prize
  Bronze in Architecture/Interior
• Photographer
  Grzegorz Gajos, Poland
• Studio
  University of Opole

The unreflective policy of infrastructure investments during the 1970s and 1980s led to a severe disruption of the harmony of the Japanese landscape. Gigantic hotels with unrefined forms were erected in cramped areas without regard for their surroundings. The deteriorating economy in the late 1990s, along with a sudden change in tourism trends, led the average Japanese person to prefer more intimate solutions. Monumental structures, once serving mass recreation, gradually fell into ruin. Hotel interiors now remain in an untouched state, covered in dust and mold, often in natural decay.