Unfolding A Nakagin Story Sanomalehtijuliste by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Rautapalkinto A' Design Award in Graafinen muotoilu Competition Category.
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Unfolding A Nakagin Story Sanomalehtijuliste
by Yang Tian
Rautapalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Grafiikka Category
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About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Sanomalehtijuliste
Määritelläkseen uudelleen Japanin sodan jälkeisen modernisuuden Metabolism-ryhmän nuorin jäsen Kisho Kurokawa kuvittelee modernin asumisen yksittäisinä soluina. Ne liikkuvat, sulattavat, kasvavat ja rappeutuvat, muodostaen uuden yhteiskunnan, jossa ihmiset eivät enää asu kiinteässä tilassa. Nakagin-tarinan avaaminen käyttää sanomalehteä mediumina dokumentoidakseen ja laajentaakseen tätä Metabolism-visiota, avautumalla luoden kaupunkitarinan.
The Recognition
About the Rautapalkinto A' Design Award
Unfolding A Nakagin Story Sanomalehtijuliste on Rautapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään hyville designeille, jotka täyttävät hyvin suunnitelluilta luomuksilta odotetut ammatilliset ja teollisuuden vaatimukset. Rautavoittajat osoittavat tekijöidensä suurta taitoa, korkeaa erikoistumista, asiantuntevaa ymmärrystä ja luovaa kapasiteettia. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Sanomalehtijuliste:n odotetaan olevan korkeassa arvossa pidetty, ihailtu ja rakastettu luomus, joka on käytännöllinen ja innovatiivinen. Tämä Rautapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign yhdistää alan parhaita käytäntöjä, ja sillä on pätevät tekniset ominaisuudet, jotka yhdistyvät osaamiseen ja lahjakkuuteen. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Sanomalehtijuliste:a arvostetaan sen perusteellisuudesta, ja se on suunniteltu tarjoamaan elämänlaadun parannuksia, jotka auttavat tekemään maailmasta paremman paikan.
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!
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