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This building is said to be the world's first practical capsule-type apartment complex, completed in 1972 by architect Kisho Kurokawa. As you can see in the picture, the room is a capsule, and it is characterized by a large number of capsules. Well, it's like a unit type. It seems that the capsule is designed to be replaced.

Not only is Kisho Kurokawa's masterpiece, it is also a masterpiece of the creation movement of metabolism, which was started by a group of young Japanese architects at the time in 1959. Metabolism is a movement that takes its name from metabolism (metabolism) and proposes the form of cities and architecture that grow organically with social changes and population growth. Is the capsule of this building regarded as a cell of living things?

Buildings of this shape were often projected on TVs of transformation heroes and robotics that were popular as children. If you think about it now, it may have been this building. I thought everyone would be a building like this in the future, but it didn't seem like that after all.

In recent years, there seems to be some stories about this building being demolished due to aging. Buildings before the war are designated as cultural properties and are important, but post-war buildings are being neglected in that respect or are being rebuilt more and more due to aging. I would like this building to be preserved in some way as a representative of the period of high economic growth.