Satori Sento Part 2 Project 2025 Andrew Lee National University of Singapore | Singapore Satori Sento of Latent Ruin is an architectural project that explores how we might live with collapse—not as catastrophe, but as quiet continuity. Set in Tokyo, a city suspended between reconstruction and ruin, the project is grounded in a post-growth sensibility shaped by Japan’s disillusionment following its economic bubble burst. It reimagines the sento (public bathhouse) not as fixed typology, but as a living infrastructure for care, routine, and ritual— yielding to change, and remaining with what breaks.Rather than proposing architecture as a monument to permanence or progress, the project explores how spatial forms can anticipate their own transformation.Materially and philosophically, the work engages collapse as a latent condition embedded in the everyday. Salvaged timber, cracked tiles, and warped fittings are treated not as decoration, but as agents of temporal and symbolic continuity.Amidst climate precarity, economic stagnation, and generational disillusionment, this project positions architecture as a kind of urban wild ecology — a field of heat, water, and care — as a lived manifesto for doing less, staying longer, and remaining with what breaks. It proposes a model of architectural agency that is gentle, liminal, and grounded in the overlooked rhythms of the everyday. Tutor(s) Tsuto Sakamoto