Kisho Kurokawa

Kisho Kurokawa co-founded the Metabolist movement which focused on the avant-garde rethinking of Asian architectural styles. He had a number of strong themes present within his work such as;

Impermanence, thanks to years of bombing and natural disasters,

attention to detail,

the honest showing of the raw materials used,

and the influence of other cultures whilst carefully preserving Japan's.

This image to the left is of the interior of National Art centre in Tokyo. The holiday home below however combines the interior of a traditional Japanese tea house his own modern design. This capsule design was the exact design used for the pods on the Nakagin capsule tower.

The building above is a wing of

Sony's Osaka headquarters. The

manner in which it uses one long

central cylinder with capsules

protruding from it exemplifies the

kind of design ideas I've been

considering for arranging the living

space.

The photos below are interior views of the Nakagin capsule tower (exterior photos shown on the right and above). They expand somewhat from the more claustrophobic and simple capsule hotel I blogged about earlier. Never the less they are still coincidently very similar looking to the 2001 a Space Odyssey set.

The feel of simplicity and ergonomic efficiency seems to be a common theme within modern and certainly futuristic design.