Unfolding A Nakagin Story Ajaleheplaakat by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Ajaleheplaakat by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Rauaauhind A' Design Award in Graafika, illustratsiooni ja visuaalse kommunikatsiooni disain Competition Category.

RaudGraafika· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Ajaleheplaakat

by Yang Tian

Rauaauhind A' Design Award Winner in Graafika Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Ajaleheplaakat

Jaapani sõjajärgse modernismi taasidentifitseerimiseks kujutab Kisho Kurokawa, Metabolismi rühmituse noorim liige, kaasaegseid elamuid individuaalsete rakkudena. Need liiguvad, seedivad, kasvavad ja lagunevad, kujundades uut ühiskonda, kus inimesed ei ela enam püsivas ruumis. Unfolding a Nakagin Story kasutab ajalehte meediumina, et dokumenteerida ja laiendada seda Metabolismi visiooni lahtivoltimise kaudu linnaloo loomiseks.

The Recognition

About the Rauaauhind A' Design Award

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Ajaleheplaakat on Rauaauhinna A' Design Award võitja, prestiižikas tunnustus, mis antakse headele disainidele, mis vastavad professionaalsetele ja tööstuslikele nõuetele, mida oodatakse hästi disainitud töödelt. Raudvõitjad näitavad oma loojate suurt oskust, kõrget spetsialiseerumist, asjatundlikku mõistmist ja loomingulist võimekust. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Ajaleheplaakat peaks olema kõrgelt hinnatud, imetletud ja armastatud looming, mis on praktiline ja uuenduslik. See Rauaauhinna A' Design Award võidudisain ühendab tööstuse parimaid tavasid ning tal on pädevad tehnilised omadused, mis on seotud oskusteabe ja andega. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Ajaleheplaakat on austatud oma põhjalikkuse eest ning on loodud pakkuma elukvaliteedi parandusi, mis aitavad teha maailma paremaks paigaks.

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!