Nakagin Capsule Tower

Posted by Alfredo J. Martiz J. (Panama City, Panama) on 2 June 2007 in Architecture.

The Nakagin Capsule Tower is the world's first capsule architecture built for actual use. Capsule architecture design, establishment of the capsule as room and insertion of the capsule into a mega-structure, expresses its contemporaneousness with other works of liberated architecture from the later 1960's, in particular England's Archigram Group, France's Paul Memon, and Yona Friedman.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower takes on the challenge of the issue of whether mass production can express a diverse new quality. The Tower also strives to establish a space for the individual as a criticism to the Japan that modernized without undergoing any establishment of an "self".
On April 15, 2007, the building’s management association approved plans calling for the architectural icon to be razed and replaced with a new 14-story tower. A demolition is yet to be determined.

Architect: Kisho Kurokawa
Building Area: 429.51m²
Total Floor Area: 3,091.23m²
Structure Type: Steel and Reinforced Concrete
Storeys: 1 Basement Floor + 11 and 13 Floors
Design-Construction: 1970-1972

Source: Kisho Kurokawa, Architectural Record

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