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NAKAGIN CAPSULE TOWER  - Phase 2

Molds and Fungi were originally part of the ecosystem. As well as Asbestos that was originally in soil. Nature built them to form a balance in the living cycle but humans remove them from where it belongs. Even in the Nakagin capsule tower in the center of Ginza contains an excessive amount of toxic chemicals. 

Ceiling and walls torn down, interior structures exposed. The bad condition of the building is pulling it down from what it’s supposed to be. 

The metabolism building Nakagin capsule tower. Sitting on its 47th-year state. The proposed futuristic module tower has gone to another direction. Only around 30 rooms are still living on its risk. 

Deteriorated and abandon rooms all around. Molds form everywhere. Toxic chemicals, asbestos, and airborne particles starts to pollute the environment. Eliminating them won’t be the solution, instead, we should take this as an opportunity. Redefine the complicated problems and look back to the origin of them. 

Bring those chemicals and molds back to its origin of the natural cycle and create another ecosystem within the capsules itself and let nature balance them. As well as taking into consideration the location in Tokyo where perfection is all around. Everyone tries to eliminate all the faults and these fungi, germs, bacteria living organisms won’t be their wish. 

This ecosystem should both destroy toxicity and enhance the relationship between humans and nature, emphasize them clearly how we can live together with no harm. 

The intervention would continue and Involve both tourists and residents of Nakagin to develop a brighter path to the 3-year risk of this tower. 

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Cohabitation

Next 21 is approaching the end of its experimental phase 4 and a new theme must be established. 

So as a reponse to that I would like to introduce a design proposal for phase 5. In the 20th century, the urban ecology is not limited only to human beings, but there are neighbouring species that are trying to establish a territory in urban landscape. The existence of these species is essential to the city ecology as they indicate the richness and the quality of our environment. As such, butterflies will visit places that are rich in resources and will flee at places that are lack of nutrients. In a way, butterfly and neighbouring species represents as an indicator of our surrounding qualities. 

So in this phase 5, I would like to transform existing architecture components to allow cohabitation. In which I decided to select the wall as my design proposal. The wall can be categorized into three main zones: human, neighbouring species, and interaction zones. The human zone is the interior space, where humans are being protected from external conditions.The neighbouring species zone refers to the extruded living space where, they are welcomed to established territory. Furthermore, this zone contains protecting mechanism from rain and cold climate in order to promote a permanent settlement. The interactive space is located in the middle section of the wall, where people can practice their daily routine as well as having the choice of interacting with other species through windows.   

One of the cladding pieces can be customized by the residents in order to create a green space that will provide food for other species. As such, this process promotes and encourage an individual to be more aware of the surrounding species.