Unfolding A Nakagin Story Programma Ephemeridis ab Yang Tian

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Unfolding A Nakagin Story Programma Ephemeridis

a Yang Tian

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Ad modernitatem Iaponiae post bellum iterum definiendam, Kisho Kurokawa, sodalitatis Metabolismi membrum iunissimum, habitationes modernas tamquam cellulas singulas imaginatur. Eae moventur, concoquunt, crescunt, et decadunt, societatem novam formantes ubi homines non iam in spatio fixo habitant. Explicatio Narrationis Nakagin ephemeridem ut medium adhibet ad hanc imaginationem Metabolismi documentandam et amplificandam, per explicationem narrationem urbanam fabricans.

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Unfolding A Nakagin Story Programma Ephemeridis victor est Praemii A' Design Award Ferreum, honoris amplissimi formis bonis dati, quae postulatis professionalibus et industrialibus ab creationibus bene formatis exspectatis satisfaciunt. Victores Ferrei magnam peritiam, altam specializationem, intellectum periti et facultatem creandi auctorum suorum ostendunt. Exspectatur Unfolding A Nakagin Story Programma Ephemeridis creationem multum aestimatam, admiratam et carissimam, practicam et novam fore. Haec forma Ferreo victa optimas industriae consuetudines integrat et proprietates technicas idoneas, cum scientia et talento coniunctas, habet. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Programma Ephemeridis ob diligentiam suam honoratur et ad vitae qualitatem emendandam formatum est, ut mundum meliorem reddere iuvet.

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Proprietates Singulares: To re-identify Japan’s Modernity after the war, Kisho Kurokawa, the youngest Metabolism group member, imagines modern housing as individual cells. They move, digest, grow, and decay, informing a new society where people no longer live in a fixed space. Unfolding a Nakagin Story uses the newspaper as a medium to document and expand this Metabolism imagination, through “unfolding” to fabricate an urban story.
Dimensiones et Involucrum: Cover: 8" X 12"

Newspaper: 16" x 24"
Notulae: Nakagin, Metabolism, Heritage, Housing, Urbanism
Technologia Productionis: Graphics are done in Photoshop and Illustrator, the architecture is modeled in Rhino with a grasshopper plugin to change patterns and orientation.
Provocatio Designandi: How can we capture the concept of Metabolism, where buildings can grow and shrink over time? How should I identify individual differences while the building comprises the same rectangular blocks? These are the two biggest challenges I need to solve. By using newspaper as the medium, one can feel the growth through unfolding the paper. One can also read individual stories despite repeating units by showing the interior information of selected blocks.
Investigatio: Focusing on post-war Japanese architecture, Metabolism was the most influential architectural movement from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Kisha Kurokawa changed the Western design ideology of FORM (ETERNAL) based living style to TIME (CHANGING) based living space. The Nakagin Capsule Tower is an iconic architecture that not only embraces ephemeral but also changes a collective to an individual-oriented living style.
Inspiratio: To embrace the idea of flexibility and updating, the newspaper is a great medium as a representation tool. Newspaper changes every day with new information and unfolding it to gain new information reinforces the idea of metabolism. By unfolding the project, each time, the capsule patterns, window colors, shapes, and orientation change within an oblique neutral grid.
Duratio Operis: Duration: 3 months

Location: Boston, MA, USA
Cursus Operationis: You could unfold it three times, each time, the capsule patterns, window colors, shapes, and orientation change within an oblique neutral grid, and 7 capsules have been highlighted to expose the interior activities of an individual with personal information next to it. Individual yet connected, neutral yet different for each capsule. You will experience the beauty of the Nakagin capsule tower after you unfold its stories!