Sophie Hazebrouck
Scenographe & Architecte


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3.11 Japan Post-Traumatique Ruins
The event which generate this analysis is the multi catastrophe of March,11th 2011


In September 2011, I went for an Exchange year in Architecture of the Tohoku University, Sendai. By being in the area which has undergone the trauma, I had the privilege to meet the actors of the reconstruction. Whether teachers, planners, students, or the direct survivors of the disaster, they all had an important desire to share their stories, their point of view. Workshops have allowed me to meet them and I had the opportunity to travel locally, in areas affected by the tsunami and by irradiation. In all this experience that nourished me, it is the image of areas in ruins that struck me the most.

Shared between a morbid fascination for the destroyed landscape and compassion towards the devastated communities, I chose to keep these ruins as study tools. For three years, they have been there and have marked this landscape in stagnation. However, reconstruction is the only problem cited when it comes to talk about the destroyed areas. Through the filter of the ruin, this work will provide a reading of the territory in his actual state and its interactions with the rest of the environment in which it fits and how it affected people and reveals Tohoku culture.

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