Michael, Gibert and Yaacob, Naziaty Mohd and Ali, Zuraini Md (2018) The capsule living unit reconsidered a Utopia transformed reality. Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 26 (3). pp. 1405-1417. ISSN 0128-7702,
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Capsule hotel; Capsule living unit; Japanese tea-hut; Kisho Kurokawa; Metabolism |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TH Building construction |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Built Environment |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2019 03:25 |
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2019 03:25 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/21289 |
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