Brutalist Architecture vs Metabolist Architecture
ブルータリズム建築 / メタボリズム建築
Masses of exposed concrete repeating one unit read as the same heavy oversized architecture of the 1960s.
How to tell them apart. Metabolism plugs identical capsules into a core so they can be taken off. Brutalism is poured as one body and never moves.
Brutalist Architecture
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A postwar ethic of public building that leaves béton brut exposed and hides neither structure nor services. Bound up with the ideals of the welfare state, it is now the subject of preservation campaigns.
Metabolist Architecture
Conceives city and building as one vast system that can grow, exchange and renew itself like an organism.
| Brutalist Architecture | Metabolist Architecture | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1950s–1970s | 1960s–1970s |
| Family | Modern Architecture | Modern Architecture |
| Kind | Style | Style |
| Cues | Raw exposed concrete / Massive volumes / Exposed structure / Repeating units | Exchangeable capsules / Megastructures / Growing cities / Organic networks |
| Best used for | Giving a lasting face to public buildings such as universities and libraries · Making a building whose services and structure explain how it works | Research buildings and housing where services and rooms are designed to different lifespans. · Phased urban proposals that must show the order in which growth happens. |
| Type | Cast or incise signage into the same surface as the concrete | Number the joints on drawings so each exchangeable unit has a name. |
| Composition | Divide large masses into repeated units and expose circulation outside | Hang repeated removable units off a core that never moves. |
| Material | Leave board marks, tie holes and joints as the finish | Factory made precast and room pods joined by visible metal connections. |
| Caution | Applying a rough grey surface without designing drips and water paths leaves black streaks within a few years and the building simply reads as damaged. | Quoting the capsule shape without deciding how and at what cost units are swapped leaves the imagery and no renewal. Grasp the system thinking that answered population growth and urban renewal. |