The capsule living unit reconsidered a Utopia transformed reality
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to seek a better understanding of why solely in Japan the concept of capsule living units has been perceived more than a mere utopia and seems to have “made sense” to a wide cultural audience as a possible housing alternative. For that purpose, a thorough literature review was conducted to bring about comprehensive understandings of this phenomenon through a historical review and a definition of the capsule as presented by the Metabolists in the 1960s, and through a comparison between its fundamentals and the one of its hypothetical ancestral precedent; the Japanese tea-hut.
Keywords
Capsule hotel, Capsule living unit, Japanese tea-hut, Kisho Kurokawa, Metabolism
Divisions
BuiltEnvironment
Publication Title
Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
Volume
26
Issue
3
Publisher
Universiti Putra Malaysia