Remodeling Nakagin Capsule Tower with Bonzai 3D & BIM exercises with Allplan

The Nakagin capsule Tower is the pioneer of capsule architecture built for actual use.

Kisho Kurokawa introduced the idea of metabolism, the architecture which based on concept “plug-in” building.
Metabolism building is designed with characters of recyclable, exchangeability, is prototype of sustainability architecture.

These capsules are clustered around two cores, each with diagonal sloping roof and pointed top. Each box shaped living unit was designed with built in stereos and calculators for single business workers.
The capsules were prefabricated complete with furniture and appliances.
Each capsule was connected to the main shafts by only 4 high tension bolt and are designed to be replaceable.

Re-Modeling Nakagin Capsule Tower by using Rhino Grasshopper and Sketchup 7

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The Nakagin Capsule Tower designed by Kisho Kurokawa and located in Shimbashi, Tokyo.The Tower was composed by prefabric capsules.Those capsules in different positionsof the tower have different altitudes.The altitudes are relating to the positions of platforms in the traffic core, which combine with those prefabric units.And most of the orientations of capsules were fixed in existing building ,only those capsules in the corner of each tower have uncertained orientations.

To re-modeling and generating the nakagin capsule tower ,I firstly studied the interesting building logic of Kisho Kurokawa.I conclude the idea of matabolism is qute faciniting .Although the tower looks very complicated, but the logic is quite clear and easy. Therefore ,with the clear and easy logic , the model could be generated and modeled quickly by several simple operations of grasshopper and sketchup 7.

Re-Modeling the Nakagin Capsule Tower using Rhino Grasshopper, Sketchup7 and ArchiCAD, Sun Ke

Re-Modeling the Nakagin Capsule Tower using Rhino Grasshopper and SketchUp 7