{"id":605,"date":"2016-02-28T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T08:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designtel.co\/?p=605"},"modified":"2020-06-07T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T06:25:15","slug":"nakagin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.tel\/nakagin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakagin Capsule Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A rare example of realised Japanese Metabolism \u2013 a movement that sought to combine ideas on architectural density with those on growth and expansion \u2013 Kisho Kurokawa\u2019s Nakagin Capsule Tower cantilevers residential capsules off concrete cores. With a reported one-month build time, Kurokawa\u2019s 10m2 capsules were constructed and fitted out for single person use with appliances, utilities and joinery off-site before being lifted and independently connected to the central cores to permit ease of removal for renovation or replacement. This process, however, ultimately proved too cost-inefficient and led to the building falling into a state of disrepair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisho Kurokawa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.tel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}