Unfolding A Nakagin Story Gazeta Posteri by Yang Tian

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Gazeta Posteri by Yang Tian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award Temir Mukofoti in Grafika, Illyustratsiya va Vizual Kommunikatsiya Dizayni Competition Category.

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Unfolding A Nakagin Story Gazeta Posteri

by Yang Tian

A' Design Award Temir Mukofoti Winner in Grafika Category

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The Design

About Unfolding A Nakagin Story Gazeta Posteri

Urushdan keyingi Yaponiya zamonaviyligini qayta aniqlash maqsadida, Metabolizm guruhining eng yosh a'zosi Kisho Kurokava zamonaviy uy-joyni alohida hujayralar sifatida tasavvur qiladi. Ular harakatlanadi, o'zlashtiradi, o'sadi va parchalanadi, bu esa odamlarning endi qat'iy belgilangan makonda yashamaydigan yangi jamiyatni shakllantiradi. "Nakagin Hikoyasini Ochish" loyihasi gazetani vosita sifatida ishlatib, ochish orqali shahar hikoyasini yaratish hamda ushbu Metabolizm tasavvurini hujjatlashtirish va kengaytirishni amalga oshiradi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Temir Mukofoti

Unfolding A Nakagin Story Gazeta Posteri A' Design Award Temir Mukofotining g‘olibi bo‘lib, bu yaxshi loyihalangan ijodlardan kutiladigan kasbiy va sanoat talablariga javob beradigan yaxshi dizaynlarga beriladigan nufuzli e’tirofdir. Temir g‘oliblari o‘z yaratuvchilarining katta mahorati, yuksak ixtisosligi, mutaxassis tushunchasi va ijodiy salohiyatini namoyon etadi. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Gazeta Posteri yuqori qadrlanadigan, hayrat bilan qaraladigan va suyukli, amaliy hamda innovatsion ijod bo‘lishi kutiladi. A' Design Award Temir Mukofotini qo‘lga kiritgan ushbu dizayn soha eng yaxshi amaliyotlarini uyg‘unlashtiradi va bilim hamda iste’dod bilan bog‘langan layoqatli texnik xususiyatlarga ega. Unfolding A Nakagin Story Gazeta Posteri puxtaligi uchun hurmatga sazovor bo‘lib, dunyoni yaxshiroq joyga aylantirishga yordam beradigan hayot sifatini yaxshilashni taqdim etish uchun loyihalangan.

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!