Nakagin Capsule Tower, a building tucked away in a corner of downtown Tokyo that is made up of boxes stacked on top of each other, is an avant-garde honeycomb of science-fiction-era housing long admired as a masterpiece.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower, a famed capsule hotel in the Ginza district, shows its unique architecture of small cubic rooms, as parts of the capsule hotel was being demolished, in Tokyo on April 8, 2022. It’s now being demolished in a careful process that includes preserving some of its 140 capsules, to be shipped to museums around the world. It’s now being demolished in a careful process that includes preserving some of its 140 capsules, to be shipped to museums around the world.
“No one exists divorced from the thoughts of those around him. All comes into existence through an assembly of causes. All things are interrelated. In accord with this principle, it is our aim to build an ideal world, step by step,” Kurokawa wrote in his 1994 book, “Philosophy of Symbiosis.”Although striking in appearance and concept, the building outlived modern construction guidelines and needed to be torn down.
Only about a third of Nakagin's residents lived there full-time in recent years. Most used it as offices and workspaces. They tended to be creative people, musicians, filmmakers and architects, as though it drew people sharing similar values. The preservation project calls for some of the capsules to allow for real-life living in a separate locale. Those in museums will be refinished by the Kurokawa architectural office, which went over the original designs to figure out how each box could be detached with minimal damage, a feat especially difficult in the crowded Ginza area.
But metabolist designs did not win wide acceptance among real estate developers, construction companies or consumers, who all turned to more conservative prefabricated housing, said Gardner, who wrote “The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction.”
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