JAPANESE METABOLISM

Power involves an aggressive growth plan aimed at tapping emerging opportunities. Power requires recognizing new investments and phenomenal growth to find the next frontier. Power in business involves attracting investors keen to get a slice of a strong consumer brand. It is about uncovering opportunities to make something even more extraordinary and to deliver the best.

 

The mash-up of the articles from week one, which I published earlier, refers to power specific to business revolving around GROWTH.This is what will drive the design for this experiment.

Jacky suggested last week that I look into Japanese Metabolism for ideas.

Here is some of what I found:

In the late 1950s, a small group of young Japanese architects and designers joined forces under the title "Metabolism". Their vision for cities of the future inhabited by a mass society were characterized by large scale, flexible and expandable structures that evoked the processes of organic growth...

Metabolist designs relied heavily on advanced technology, and they often consist of adaptable plug-in megastructures. Famous projects included the floating city in the sea (Unabara project), Kiyonori Kikutake's Marine City, Tower City, Ocean City, Wall City, Kisho Kurokawa's Agricultural City and Helix City. The most famous built example of Metabolism is Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972).

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolism_%28architecture%29

 Kiyonori Kikutake's Marine City

http://sean-edward.com.au/2011/12/

Kisho Kurokawa's Agricultural City and Helix City

 http://www.kisho.co.jp/page.php/200

Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/sftrajan/840960263/

The Japanese metabolism style of architecture does relate well to my mash-up concept of power and growth. This movement was born in a context when Japan had just emerged from the war-period and was looking forward to a time of economic and social growth

 I'm really intrigued and inspired by Kurokawa's Nakagin Capsule Tower. The separate modules in the structure give an impression that this building would be able to continually grow with the addition of more modules.

I hope to incorporate these ideas into my design.