Unfolding A Nakagin Story پۆستەری ڕۆژنامە by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story پۆستەری ڕۆژنامە by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Xelata A' Design Award a Hesinîn in Dîzayna Grafîk, Wênesazî û Ragihandina Dîtbarî Competition Category.

HesinGrafîk· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story پۆستەری ڕۆژنامە

by Yang Tian

Xelata A' Design Award a Hesinîn Winner in Grafîk Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story پۆستەری ڕۆژنامە

بۆ دووبارە ناسینەوەی مۆدێرنیتی ژاپۆن دوای جەنگ، کیشۆ کورۆکاوا، لاوترین ئەندامی گرووپی میتابۆلیزم، نیشتەجێبوونی سەردەمیانە وەک خانە تاکەکانی تەسەوور دەکات. ئەوان دەجووڵێن، هەرس دەدەن، گەشە دەکەن و تێدەپەڕن، زانیاری دەربارەی کۆمەڵگایەکی نوێ پێدەدەن کە تێیدا خەڵک چیتر لە شوێنێکی جێگیردا ناژین. گەڵاڵەکردنەوەی چیرۆکی ناکاگین، ڕۆژنامە بەکاردەهێنێت وەک مێدیایەک بۆ تۆمارکردن و بەرفراوانکردنی ئەم تەسەوورە میتابۆلیزمییە، لە ڕێگەی گەڵاڵەکردنەوە بۆ دروستکردنی چیرۆکێکی شارستانی.

The Recognition

About the Xelata A' Design Award a Hesinîn

Unfolding A Nakagin Story پۆستەری ڕۆژنامە xelatgirê Xelata A' Design Award a Hesinîn e, nasîneke bi prestîj ku ji sêwiranên baş re tê dayîn, yên ku pêdiviyên pîşeyî û pîşesaziyê yên ku ji afirandinên baş hatine sêwirandin têne hêvîkirin tînin cih. Xelatgirên Hesinînê jêhatîbûna mezin, pisporiya bilind, têgihiştina pisporî û kapasîteya afirîner a afirînerên xwe nîşan didin. Tê hêvîkirin ku Unfolding A Nakagin Story پۆستەری ڕۆژنامە afirandineke pir hatiye rêzgirtin, sitayişkirin û delal, pratîkî û nûjen be. Ev sêwirana bi Hesinînê serketî pratîkên çêtirîn ên pîşesaziyê yekgirtî dike û xwedî taybetmendiyên teknîkî yên jêhatî ye ku bi zanîn û jêhatîbûnê ve girêdayî ne. Unfolding A Nakagin Story پۆستەری ڕۆژنامە ji ber baldariya xwe tê rêzgirtin û hatiye sêwirandin da ku kalîteya jiyanê baştir bike û alîkariya çêtirkirina dinyayê bike.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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!