#phase 02

Fireweed Moors' hundredth page is up!!

⭐  Catch the new page here

⭐  Start reading from the beginning

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. 

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.