House colouds Rehabilitation Room at Rozelle

Rehabilitation Room at Rozelle

their corrugated iron roofs streaked with rust and their frames bowing under decades of weather

The bar sat inside a purpose-built community venue at the corner of Victoria Road and Darling Street

a site that produced cement from 1902 until November 1991

House colouds Rehabilitation Room at RozelleA two storey timber house in Yubari, its upper storey wrapped in rusted corrugated steel and its lower walls shedding blue paint in long strips. Bare branches press against the facade; debris and broken timber collect at the front. The post war mining town vernacular that once housed tens of thousands across Hokkaido's Sorachi coalfields, now standing largely empty. Part of the Streetscapes of Yubari series.