ABSTRACT
Among Megastructure proposals by Kiyonori Kikutake, 'Vertical Communities' in the late 1950s and the 1960s are analyzed in this chapter, as the first and most influential attempts in Metabolism to connect individual buildings with the city. Ten projects of his 'Vertical Communities'—the vertically extended three-dimensional residential structures—are taken and classified into four types according to their scale and formal structure. Type 1 is represented by the Tower-Shaped Community Project, 1958 and 'Vertical Communities' in Koto District Project, 1961, Marine City Project, 1963 and Ocean City Project, 1968, which are basically the same towers. The 'mova-block' of Marine City Unabara Project, 1960 and the dwelling block of Shallow Sea-Type Community Project, 1963 are classified as Type 2. Tree-Shaped Housing Project With One Center Core, 1968, is the only representative of Type 3. Tree-Shaped Housing Project with Four and Six Separate Cores, 1968 and Tower-Shaped Housing Project, 1969 are classified as Type 4.
