Unfolding A Nakagin Story Affissu di Ghjurnale by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Affissu di Ghjurnale by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award di Ferru in Disignu Graficu Competition Category.

FerruGrafica· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Affissu di Ghjurnale

by Yang Tian

A' Design Award di Ferru Winner in Grafica Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Affissu di Ghjurnale

Per ridefinisce a Mudernità di u Giappone dopu a guerra, Kisho Kurokawa, u membru u più ghjovanu di u gruppu Metabolismu, immagina l'abitazioni muderne cum'è cellule individuali. Elli si movenu, digeriscenu, crescenu è decadenu, furmandu una nova sucetà induve a ghjente ùn vive più in un spaziu fissu. Dispiegà una Storia Nakagin utiliza u ghjurnale cum'è mediu per documentà è espande sta imaginazione Metabolista, attraversu u dispiegamentu per fabricà una storia urbana.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award di Ferru

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Affissu di Ghjurnale hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru, una ricunniscenza prestigiosa attribuita à i boni disegni chì rispondenu à i requisiti prufessiunali è industriali aspettati da creazioni ben cuncipite. I vincitori di Ferru dimustranu una grande abilità, una alta specializazione, una cumpresa esperta è a capacità creativa di i so creatori. Si aspetta chì Unfolding A Nakagin Story Affissu di Ghjurnale sia una creazione assai apprezzata, ammirata è cara chì hè pratica è innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award di Ferru integra e migliori pratiche di u settore è hà caratteristiche tecniche cumpetenti ligate à u sapè fà è à u talentu. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Affissu di Ghjurnale hè rispettatu per a so meticulosità è hè cuncipitu per furnisce miglioramenti di a qualità di a vita chì aiutanu à fà di u mondu un locu megliu.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: 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.
Dimensions & Packaging: Cover: 8" X 12"

Newspaper: 16" x 24"
Tags: Nakagin, Metabolism, Heritage, Housing, Urbanism
Production Technology: Graphics are done in Photoshop and Illustrator, the architecture is modeled in Rhino with a grasshopper plugin to change patterns and orientation.
Design Challenge: 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.
Research: 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.
Inspiration: 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.
Project Duration: Duration: 3 months

Location: Boston, MA, USA
Operation Flow: 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!