Metabolism/ Project | anazastranovic

FACING THE URBAN CHANGES: STUDY ON METABOLISM/ MASTER THESIS

Faced with problems which city experiences during rapid growth, we had to look for a solution to a similar combination of problems. On the path of finding the solution, we came across Metabolism, the movement that changed architecture. Declared in the 1960s, a decade of immense optimism in Japan, the Metabolist announced a vision of accelerated urbanism and advanced technology, a techno-utopia, which was the encounter between urbanism and architectural design, an organic process, extending from and understanding of the individual cell towards the organization of larger cluster and network communities. As Arata Isozaki (who was close to the members but never joined Metabolism) said: They really believed in technology, in mass production; they believed in systematic urban infrastructure and growth. The Metabolists had no skepticism toward their utopia. The idea behind the design and concept is to discuss and provoke the future of the city. To make an open experiment, fertile for further improvement, innovations, and not a closed architectural solution.

In 1960, at the World Design Conference, the vision of Kisho Kurokawa, Kiyonori Kikutake, Fumihiko Maki, Arata Isozaki, Masato Otaka, Noboru Kawazoe, and other architects who had come under the influence of Kenzo Tange, presented Metabolism. It developed organic schemes of network cities as a response to actual issues. Increased mobility was a matter of individual freedom. The focus is set on unifying all urban aspects into one big organism. In a manner of speaking. Metabolism is a biological term that describes the anabolic and katabolic processes of a living body. The aim was to find catalysts that could solve the issue that came with rapid growth and the strict separation of public and private realms. During this period the eccentric avant-garde group produced a resounding amount of innumerable projects and ideas. Because of its wide variety, we are able to divide them into three groups, which are composed of more defined subgroups, such as capsules, artificial ground, proliferation, and group form, which represents the scope of projects designed “on the land”; floating cities designed “on the sea”; and unicore and mega forests designed“ in the air”.

ANALYSIS/ METABOLSIM MOVEMENT/ ISTANBUL PARAMETERS

Rendering all the information from the research about Metabolism, followed by constructing a physical form, a response. The mass of ideas, shapes, and forms, colliding with one another. Different approach methods from simple to more complex- from single unit to a group form.