Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akwụkwọ Akụkọ by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akwụkwọ Akụkọ by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Igwe in Nhazi Eserese, Ịse Ihe na Nkwurịta Anya Competition Category.

IgweEserese· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akwụkwọ Akụkọ

by Yang Tian

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Igwe Winner in Eserese Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akwụkwọ Akụkọ

Iji chọpụtagharia ọgbara ọhụrụ Japan mgbe agha gasịrị, Kisho Kurokawa, onye kacha nta n'òtù Metabolism, chere ụlọ obibi ọgbara ọhụrụ dị ka mkpụrụ ndụ nke onwe ha. Ha na-akwagharị, na-agbazi nri, na-eto eto, ma na-emebi emebi, na-akụzi ọha mmadụ ọhụrụ ebe ndị mmadụ anaghịzi ebi n'ebe kwụsiri ike. Unfolding a Nakagin Story na-eji akwụkwọ akụkọ dị ka ngwa nka iji dekọọ ma gbasaa echiche Metabolism a, site n'imeghepụ ya iji mepụta akụkọ obodo mepere emepe.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Igwe

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akwụkwọ Akụkọ meriri A' Design Award nke Igwe, nnabata dị ugwu e nyere design ndị dị mma nke na-emezu ihe ndị a chọrọ n'ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ nke a na-atụ anya n'ihe e kere eke ndị e mere nke ọma. Ndị meriri na Igwe na-egosi nka buru ibu, ọkachamara dị elu, nghọta ọkachamara na ikike imepụta nke ndị kere ha. A na-atụ anya na Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akwụkwọ Akụkọ ga-abụ ihe e kere eke a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya nke bụ ihe bara uru ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Igwe na-ejikọta ụzọ kacha mma nke ụlọ ọrụ ma nwee àgwà teknụzụ kwesịrị ekwesị jikọtara na ihe ọmụma na talent. A na-asọpụrụ Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akwụkwọ Akụkọ maka nlezianya ya ma e mere ya ka ọ nye mmeziwanye ndụ nke na-enyere aka ime ka ụwa bụrụ ebe ka mma.

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!