Unfolding A Nakagin Story Afisy Gazety by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Afisy Gazety by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Vy in Famolavolana Grafika, Sary ary Fifandraisana Ara-tsary Competition Category.

VyGrafika· 2025

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Afisy Gazety

by Yang Tian

A' Design Award Vy Winner in Grafika Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Afisy Gazety

Mba hamantarana indray ny Fahamoderinana Japoney taorian'ny ady, i Kisho Kurokawa, mpikambana tanora indrindra tao amin'ny vondrona Metabolism, dia maka sary an-tsaina ny trano fonenana maoderina ho toy ny sela tsirairay. Mihetsika izy ireo, mandevo, mitombo, ary simba, ka mampahafantatra fiaraha-monina vaovao izay tsy mipetraka amin'ny toerana raikitra intsony ny olona. Ny Unfolding a Nakagin Story dia mampiasa ny gazety ho fitaovana handraketana sy hanitarana izany sary an-tsaina Metabolism izany, amin'ny alalan'ny famelabelarana mba hamoronana tantara an-tanàn-dehibe.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Vy

Nandresy ny A' Design Award Vy ny famolavolana Unfolding A Nakagin Story Afisy Gazety, fankasitrahana malaza omena ny famolavolana tsara izay mahafeno ny fepetra ara-barotra sy ara-indostria andrasana amin'ny famoronana natao tsara. Ny mpandresy Vy dia mampiseho fahaiza-manao lehibe, fahaizana manokana ambony, fahatakarana manam-pahaizana ary fahaizana mamorona an'ireo mpamorona azy. Andrasana ho famoronana ankasitrahana be, ankafizina ary tiana izay azo ampiharina sady vaovao ny famolavolana Unfolding A Nakagin Story Afisy Gazety. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Vy ity dia mampiray ny fomba fanao tsara indrindra amin'ny indostria ary manana toetra ara-teknika mahomby mifandray amin'ny fahalalana sy ny talenta. Ny famolavolana Unfolding A Nakagin Story Afisy Gazety dia hajaina noho ny fitandremany ary natao hanome fanatsarana ny kalitaon'ny fiainana izay manampy hahatonga ny tontolo ho toerana tsara kokoa.

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!