Glad you liked it mate ☺. Nice to know I'm doing smth right haha. Have a good one!

Anytime man, cheers

Hey Alexey 👋 I share your concerns in regards to mobility of inhabitants. It could certainly be an extremely convenient method to employ when relocating, though it would require the place you're moving to, to have a compatible structure to accommodate your capsule 🤔 As to why the movement didn't catch on, I suppose the global culture and view in the 90s weren't that accepting towards these kinds of drastic, over the top inventions. Even though it would've proved to be highly efficient. I could see Metabolism make a comeback in the mid 21st century or maybe earlier. In the era of SpaceX, Tesla, NFTs, Bitcoin poppin off, the world we live in now is more experimental and open-minded. I could see it being used on Mars when we start having people live there. We might need structures that are highly efficient, cost effective, resilient, and adaptable over there. But the old concepts would definitely need to be revised and developed. Nonetheless, it's definitely a niche in architecture that is worth looking into!

​@@nickvsarch Yes, You are right. People are buying normal apartments anyway, so why bother taking extra risks and engineering challenges. Yes, similar issue like the one electric vehicles are facing - people will not buy electric vehicle unless the charging infrastructure is sufficient, and charging infrastructure remains undeveloped, because demand is too low, because no one drives EV. So somehow the concept should be attractive from day one, with just one core, with no apparent advantage of unified cores and capsules. Thinking of it again, just one core and a few extra spare capsules could be already useful. New owner could use spare capsule(s) for all necessary preparations to move-in while the capsule is on the ground (any repair, maintanance, design, furnituring works; also probably brining in partially belongings before lifting the capsule), so later at specified date-time old capsule can be extracted from the slot of the core and the new one swiftly slotted into it's place. Assuming it is as easy, as lifting shipping containers, delivered by the ground. So the crane needs to be built-in onto the core to make lifting easy. So if it will be in use in a single instance and if more instances will emerge later, then maybe in the long run it will transform into a new business model, with unified capsules and a lot of involved companies doing it's own part - building cores, building/refurbishing/delivering/recycling capsules. Maybe businesses will see it as an opportunity to offer more additional value to customers - better and nicer capsule-apartment, otherwise too expensive to be made in-place. Not just cheaper thanks to mass-production, but also adding value people would be looking for. In the end maybe even individual houses will be affected by the trend and will become equipped with slots too. Recalling Tesla - yes, 1st instances should be somehow advertised as luxury, before it will be ready to go mainstream. But luxury and living in a "shipping containers" may be hard to combine :) Still this is interesting concept to contemplate. Like a brain exercise. Thanks for brining it up!

Cheers mate, means a lot

No problemo 🤓

That's good to hear mate thanks 😊

Good luck!

I couldn't find any info on the drainage systems of the projects mentioned 😕. I would assume that the capsules on the nakagin tower have some way of draining the water on the roof since there's a gap in between the units where water can get in... The practice of interchanging building components is intriguing indeed, but it creates gaps in the building envelope that needs to be detailed correctly. Not to mention the structural limitations of cantilvering components. I think these both would be interesting areas you could look into ☺. Another direction in metabolism I could see working out is by incorporating an expandable space frame structure acting as a platform for capsules(look into the capsule dwelling in the roof of the festival plaza in the Osaka Expo 1970, & check out La Ville Spatiale by Yona Friedman, Buckminster Fuller Geodesic Dome). Best of luck mate!

@@nickvsarch thank you for the replying, ill look into it and i agree a frame structure seems reliable than just cantilevering the capsules. i appreciate the guidance

@@natestaion HI man, If you could share your project/findings it would be really helpful to me. I am designing a metabolic community centre and need to figure the services part. Thanks a lot in advance! and i hope your project went well.

Hi Natthakan, you could start by thinking about areas of the mall would benefit from having the ability to expand/reorganise/adapt. Then group programs that are unlikely to undergo any future changes together. The Yamanashi Broadcasting Center by Tange I talked about in the video is a good precedent, so is the Tokyo Bay Plan by Tange as well, though never realised, you might pick up a thing or two from the concepts... You could also look into expanding space frame structure, which was the main feature in the Osaka Expo 1970. It covered the entire festival plaza/symbol zone with only for columns! They had capsules embedded into the lattice frames as well which was pretty cool. I think the concept originated from Friedman in Ville Spatiale. Although if you're thinking of building expanding structures, try to take into account the future structural requirements as well. The Takara Beautillion by Kurokawa was just for show, it couldn't support any more capsules even it wanted to. But the Yamanashi project by Tange did account for future offices. Try to think of how it could work in real life rather than just a school project, it's not easy tho haha.. Maybe you could look into construction details of the Ise Shrine in Japan. It's constructed with traditional timber joinery and is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years since 4 BCE(or thereabouts). Do share with me if you encounter any breakthroughs! Good luck 👍

Would love to see it!

why dont you just make them in unity?

I'm not sure how would we address the additional loading when more modules are added. The base structure would have accommodate a predetermined loading in the initial construction. But if there's more modules than anticipated being added, we would have to beef up the base structure. How would we tackle that issue? I have no idea...

@@nickvsarch I don't know how you went throught my comment, it was a mess. Anyway what I was trying to say is that if there is a reliable plan for a base structure that can host 10-25 modules and you can produce these modules through wastes of the construction industry with even a short lifespan of 5 years for each module you can get a reliable plan of an efficient and sustainable metabolistic construction. For example let's say that you are able to build a base structure that has a hall and a staircase that connects to every future module with all the needed utilities (heat, water and electricity which I don't know how possible that is) with max capacity of hosting 10 modules (4 on each floor, this is a hypothetical scenario either way). If you can build the modules reliably from, lets say, wind turbines wastes (when wind turbines are withdrawn they are known to be excelent recyclable materials for shelters) and let's say cement powder (that you get in big quantities when you knock down old buildings and after a fair amount of processing it can be used as construction material again) you get yourself a highly sustainable construction plan that takes into consideration major elements that architecture is facing right now. Some of them buing longevity (as long as the base structure can hold for 50 yeras+ you are good I'd guess), you utilise major wastes that are hard to be reused but do have reusable properties and you provide a relatively low-cost alternative for an average resident you check most boxes (at least from the perspective of my profession). Hope this one makes a little bit more sense.

Yeah you definitely need a team that shares the same vision to be able to accomplish visionary projects like these. It would've been difficult to connect with like-minded people back then since the internet wasn't a big deal yet. From what I read online, the cost of replacing a capsule was not worth it, and the owners preferred to rent/buy a flat in the city. Though the cost was not explained, I assumed it would've been greatly reduced if the production was at scale.

Thanks, much love ❤️

@@nickvsarch thanks! I heard about our embassy in Japan! I wonder what that building was used for before Kuwait embassy moved there

Looks like it haha

Just graduated actually