Besi Grafik · 2025
Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akhbar
by Yang Tian
- A' Design Award Besi 2025 in Grafik
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 8,847
- Verification code 7ED7013498 · Verify this award
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About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akhbar
Untuk mengenal pasti semula Kemodenan Jepun selepas perang, Kisho Kurokawa, ahli termuda kumpulan Metabolism, membayangkan perumahan moden sebagai sel-sel individu. Ia bergerak, mencerna, membesar, dan mereput, membentuk masyarakat baharu di mana orang ramai tidak lagi tinggal dalam ruang yang tetap. Unfolding a Nakagin Story menggunakan akhbar sebagai medium untuk mendokumentasikan dan mengembangkan imaginasi Metabolism ini, melalui lipatan untuk mencipta sebuah kisah urban.
About the A' Design Award Besi
Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akhbar ialah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengiktirafan yang berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk yang baik yang memenuhi keperluan profesional dan industri yang dijangka daripada ciptaan yang direka dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan kemahiran yang besar, kepakaran yang tinggi, kefahaman pakar dan keupayaan kreatif penciptanya. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akhbar diharapkan menjadi ciptaan yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi dan disayangi yang praktikal dan inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini menyepadukan amalan terbaik industri dan mempunyai ciri teknikal yang kompeten yang dikaitkan dengan kepakaran dan bakat. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Poster Akhbar dihormati kerana ketelitiannya dan direka untuk memberikan peningkatan kualiti hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.
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- 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!
