The design approach based on different
“metabolic cycles” was employed by the
Metabolists in several projects. Especially, the
combination of megastructure and cell, a
dramatic representation of the Metabolists’
concept of city as process, has become the
trademark of the group. Although it has never
been realized as a city, some managed to carry
out this concept symbolically in building
projects, prominently among them Kurokawa’s
Nakagin Building and Tange’s Shizuoka
Shinbun Building. [Fig. 4] They were both
intended as experiments of the Metabolist
concepts proposed for a larger scale. Ironically,
their constructions remained regular reinforced
concrete structure, and the cells are indeed
unmovable and irreplaceable. Without any
support of both technical and social ratification,
they became isolated monuments to showcase
the aesthetics of “incompleteness.
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