refreshing tower
The Nakagin Tower was proposing the smallest living unit - the capsule - to be replaced every 20 years. However they were all the same. Their interiors were clearly defined, all furnished the same way. Also the units were too small and not flexible at all.
In the rebrief, the idea of having two different rates of change for two different layers of the building will be kept. In the diagram on the right, you can see the grid structure being stable and the rest changing in time in an abstract way.
It shows the idea of having different sizes of capsules, located on a rigid system which includes circulation and structural elements.
The problem would be still keeping an enclosed space, "the capsule" unit and not letting the city on the vertical to act like the city on the horizontal.
In the re-briefed Nakagin Tower, the boundaries between the "capsules" would fade and rigid space integrated with the main structure would host shared spaces between the units.
In the rebrief, the idea of having two different rates of change for two different layers of the building will be kept. In the diagram on the right, you can see the grid structure being stable and the rest changing in time in an abstract way.
It shows the idea of having different sizes of capsules, located on a rigid system which includes circulation and structural elements.
The problem would be still keeping an enclosed space, "the capsule" unit and not letting the city on the vertical to act like the city on the horizontal.
In the re-briefed Nakagin Tower, the boundaries between the "capsules" would fade and rigid space integrated with the main structure would host shared spaces between the units.
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