13 Facts About Metabolist Movement

Metabolist Movement considered the idea of "major" and "minor" city structure and how this could grow in cycles like the trunk and leaves of a tree.

Metabolist Movement often invited people from other professions to give talks and one of these was the atomic physicist, Mitsuo Taketani.

Metabolist Movement answered questions until after midnight with Maki acting as translator.

Metabolist Movement said that the creation of this "artificial land" would allow people to use other land in a more natural way.

Metabolist Movement arranged Bamboo-shaped Cities along these cruciforms but unlike Kikutake he kept the city towers lower than 31 metres to conform with Tokyo's building code .

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Metabolist Movement proposed a wall-shaped city that could extend indefinitely.

Metabolist Movement envisaged that his Mushroom Houses would sprout through the slab of Agriculture City.

Metabolist Movement stacked these functions vertically according to need, for example, the printing plant is on the ground floor to facilitate access to the street for loading and transportation.

Metabolist Movement then took all the service functions including elevators, toilets and pipes and grouped them into 16 reinforced concrete cylindrical towers, each with an equal 5 metre diameter.

Metabolist Movement originated the idea from vernacular forms of village architecture that were projected into vast structures with the aid of modern technology.

Metabolist Movement defined megastructures as modular units that attached to structural framework .

Metabolist Movement asked Ekuan to oversee the design of the furniture and transportation and Kawazoe to curate the Mid-Air Exhibition which was sited in the huge space-frame roof.

Metabolist Movement did however complete the Kuwaiti Embassy in Tokyo in 1970 and Kuwait's International Airport, as well as the Presidential Palace in Damascus, Syria.