Yatai was a project undertaken in collaboration with students and staff from Ritsumeikan University in Osaka, Japan. Monash University students traveled to Japan to design and make a series of urban interventions at the shopping district around Ibaraki Station.

7 temporary projects were designed and made by mixed teams of students from both universities in response to the prompt to make semi-public spaces that act as interfaces between the shops and the public space of the shopping district.

The primary material for the project was 2 x 4 lumber and projects were largely prefabricated and then installed in situ ahead of a self-organised Yatai festival.

When: 2019

Staff Responsible: Nigel Bertram, Ari Seligmann

External Collaborators: Koichi Suzuno (Torafu) and Keiji Ashizawa, Ritsumeikan University

Level of Students: Master of Architecture

Number of Students: 15