WK 02- Research: Archigram

• prototype and prefabrication

Nakagin Capsule Tower / Kisho Kurokawa

By Megan Sveiven — Filed under: AD Architecture Classics ,Featured ,Housing , 

Japan, Kisho Kurokawa, Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo

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Architect Kisho Kurokawa was very innovative in his creation of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in 1972, which was the first capsule architecture design. The module was created with the intention of housing traveling businessmen that worked in central Tokyo during the week. It is a prototype for architecture of sustainability and recycleability, as each module can be plugged in to the central core and replaced or exchanged when necessary.

http://www.archdaily.com/110745/ad-classics-nakagin-capsule-tower-kisho-kurokawa/naka19/

• Autonomous Pod

The Walking City is constituted by intelligent buildings or robots that are in the form of giant, self contained living pods that could roam the cities. The form derived from a combination of insect and machine and was a literal interpretation of Corbusier's aphorism of a house as a machine for living in. The pods were independent, yet parasitic as they could 'plug in' to way stations to exchange occupants or replenish resources. The citizen is therefore a serviced nomad not totally dissimilar from today's executive cars. The context was perceived as a future ruined world in the aftermath of a nuclear war.

Above text from Wikipedia

http://designmuseum.org/media/item/4539/-1/87_2Lg.jpg

http://www.archivitamins.com/wp-content/uploads/walking_city_1.jpg

http://www.revelinnewyork.com/blog/08/31/2009/archigram