5.THE NOMADLAND-S2_1(Process+Concept)/RIBA Silver Medal Nomination

THE NOMADLAND

& Twelve Tales

The Nomadland is an imaginary and ephemeral installation aimed at reflecting the desire to escape from and assimilated to the city

Content Preface

You might have experienced this situation, my dear reader, after waking up from a familiar but surreal dream, there was a moment when you more or less felt alienation from the real world. It might slip before your mind now and then like a fleeting shadow, or be interpreted as blurred images or words and eventually become a fortuitous memory. I'm obsessed with this idea. Therefore, I made a prompt decision to collate and publish them when I came across these manuscripts at a shop corner.

It was composed with 12 short poems, scattered around with no front page. Except that, there was no more information of when or by whom they were written. As I started to collate, I could distinguish two writers by handwriting; one is tidy and another is more like a random diary. Their poems are varied in perspective, but strangely, delivered a similar absurd and fragmented atmosphere. Later, I commissioned friends to illustrate each poem to make the narrative richer, and then arrange them with our personal perception. We are not able to find the source of these tales, but they certainly are expressing a more mysterious story. Then, please forget the reality for a moment and enter this intersected dream.

I

Check Point

He is reborn as he moves freely among the boundaries.

Each stamp is like a scalding brand of his mind.

The nameless crave identity, like the passenger thirst for stillness.

Endlessly travelling drown his clamour of silence.

The fading past flourishes in the impotent’s dream, Where he could be settled again.

II

Lightbox

We praise the image sensor, its skeleton forms our connection.

The daydream of understanding each other, has been sealed in a black box.

Where unescapable light flutters around.

We barricade against the different.

But tonight, we meet again in the delusion of those white eyes.

III

The Second Coming

A tribute to the god, in a mysterious temple far far away.

At the end of that river, where the ones with belief could stay.

We used to live in the dark, until god answered to our pray.

Therefore, we have power, generation after generation.

We shall not forget, let the light fade away.

IV

Inside the Whale

Dozens of young fishermen convince that they saw a whale, and the news was brought back to the dock.

The monster is larger than ten courts, a young man said. Every time it sprays, it’s like a rapid rain, another man added.

No one in the crowd believed the story, even the most experienced old salt saw no whales in the North Sea.

Then they steered away.

When the night comes, untouchable shadow approach to city, burnished and humming.

Rhythm Place

The saxophone and the piano play two lines, sometimes intersect, sometimes parallel.

The lively freedom of the blues comes with the rhythm of the sheet. Music reaches all ears equally, it doesn’t curtsy for the noble or the royal.

Let’s dance before the club closes.

VI

Mall City

A flood of advertising images. A radio that won’t stop. Always loud and colourful. The linear cut through like a sword, one side is living, one side is work.

People lined up on the conveying belt like ants, waiting to be disassembled.

The monument, the church, the history, the culture. The Mall.

VII

How Soon is Now?

The snow melts, hill stream among its pebbles.

A man packed his luggage, tied his shoes. Where this journey might lead him is still unknown. More winter comes, with more patience and persistence. He still must set off again and again with hope, respectfully follow the arrangement of nature.

Weakly, tamely shuttle across this land.

VIII

Back of House

Some say, you can hear howling inside the wall at night, like a giant beast.

Some say, there is a tunnel connectingthe city to land, where everything is provided.

Some are determined to go and live in the world above, wondering how different it would be.

But no one dares to go down and wake the beast.

IX

Turn On the Sun

It is not allowed to contaminate the hidden gold utensils with other people’s fingerprints.

The collection of favourite landscapes needs to be put in velvet metal boxes.

the muffled sound of the trees cried out desire. The noise of the moment scoffs at the music of the eternal.

Turn on the sun,

We conspired quietly, to keep a private forest between square inches.

Cloud Platform

Ripples of dots, Like burning holes in a black canvas.

People hurriedly pass by and encounter in the dark, shining bright light.

The whisper of eternal shadows, waves at the shore of the world, languishes in silence.

it’s a single sparkle that starts a prairie fire, an individual that becomes a herd.

XI

Walk In Emmental

What’s inside an emmental？ There are countless tunnel.

No way in, No way out.

Only wait, walk, and run, With nothing happens at all.

Empty shells from which no one has written, and of course with no one would work that out.

Waiting to be shattered in the dust, what’s inside an emmental？

XII

The Concern From a Family

Shape like a tiny teapot, wandering around the living room and finding residues

Time goes, the teapot grows

“what’s your name?”

“Odradek”

“what’s your purpose?” Silence.

We don’t know where it from, but we all believe the Odradek will find another destination someday.

ATELIER INTRO

Abstract

‘Infrastructure Space seeks to find the latent possibilities inherent in things that already exist and to ask how these might be put to use in the service of society. We are concerned with the productive capacity of existing infrastructure and the combination of systems into new infrastructure that address environmental issues in tandem with the socio-cultural ramifications. We accept time as an operative condition and within this, use as a temporary state amidst more structural permanence. Materially, we are interested in the recovery of matter and the oscillations of scale as things are cast and recast, processed and reprocessed, eroded and reconstituted. Moreover, we are interested in how the virtual and real co-exist and the technological, environmental and ecological opportunities within these parameters.’

This body of work is situated within systematic nomadism around the North Sea, and concentrates on the human figure’s plight in the modern production landscape and their desperate need to preserve a sense of identity in that inhuman, alienating environment. It further explores the contemporary social and political issues that are addressed by the modern nomad, including dependency on technology, identity diffusion, body in operating space, and production space as disciplinary institutions etc. The group replaces the top-down design logic with the complex interaction between theoretical background, script, collage, drawing and other mediums, and then composes an absurd and ravishing collection of tales. It includes a series of independent but consecutive scenes, which never in -

tend to create a certain “thing” with delusion but picturize the atmosphere for the final outcome. The methodology and process of work are recorded and packed as “handbook” and “building the stage”. By breaking the fourth wall, we try to discuss the possibilities of integrating these rich materials in the next stage with the audience.

(Evaline) Lingxi Tao

(Emily) Luo Zhang

(Ryan) Qirui Wang

(Nick) Siqi Guo

‘The NomadLand & Twelve Tales’

Part A: The Making of Twelve Tales

Background and Methodology Study

Introduction

1 to 12

Chapter I: Twelve Tales

13 to 40

Part B: For Studio Three

Storyboard and Paper Model Test

Chapter II: Storyboard

41 to 46

Part C: Futher Attempts

Systematic Study and Approach

Chapter III: Building the Stage

47 to 54

Chapter IV: Instructive Models

55 to 63

Appendix: Biblography

Well, shall we go?

PART A

THE MAKING OF TWELVE TALES

Nomadland of the North Sea

No matter whether it is due to the need for further development or to handle the climate issue, the future of the North Sea will be reshaped with more activity with well believed ‘clean’ energy. Resulting in a more integrated and busy industrial system with the need from all stakeholders, contributed by energy, logistics and aqua.

System

What is the behavior of NOMADS in the North Sea?

It is not only a place where most of the nomad system encounters the land and it is the place where most of the interactions of figures from the city (traditional system) and nomad system happen.

Studio One Analysis

The influx of people into a new field with completely different lifestyles will generate a new universal culture different from their original, at this stage (site), all foretime characteristics will no longer exist in the forthcoming future.

What are the possibilities of future industrial scenarios? How does the traditional system react to this trend?

Revealing the fact Cluster Figure

STUDIO TWO

Will there be a place where we can observe these trends and relationships?

Methodology

Studio 2 structure

In Studio 1 we used the lens of nomadism to analyse the North Sea from a wide-angle. The concept of nomadism is highly human-based, therefore, we decide to zoom into the perspective of modern nomad figures in this step, and find their particular characteristics. This approach added ethical tones to our study and filled up the whole nomad theory.

It became a big challenge to express our thoughts when we gradually captured the systematic and ethical plight of modern nomads and referred to in-depth social and political theory. Then we decide to take Studio 2 as a process for better understanding and preparation for the final design. We built the final theory structure and then used architectural drawings as a device to test these ideas. The set of 12 tales would directly influence the design structure, storytelling and atmosphere for the final outcome. Another major part: the handbook compressed this unique synergistic methodology.

Other studies

12 Tales

The Nomadland

Studio 2 output

Studio 3 output

Studio 1

Nomadland Portfolio Talebook Handbook Appendix

Reflection - nomad system

At the end of Studio 1, we speculated that modern production, especially the energy system, will keep extracting, operating and deploying resources around the North Sea region. The infrastructural nomad would speed up the social and economic transformation of the surroundings. We also foresaw that the growing spatial demand of coastal industry will exacerbate the separation of urban structure in production and the city.

When people habitually regard industrial production as the goal of development (once to be heavy industry, now is a clean industry), capitalism would be easily packaged as another “culture”, an attractive illusion which drives more intense flux of the region, but eventually creates an alienation landscape.

Reflection - nomad figure

Within the torrent of the nomad, we found a group of people swept by the big system and in the situation of what we called modern nomad (seafarer, offshore engineers, etc). We used rhythm, network, and the view of the sea to present their unique lifestyle during the “figure” analysis in Studio 1. To push the study, we tried to analyse and reveal the actual condition of modern nomads as well as their differences from citizens. We found the modern nomads are

1.Briefly stripped of their individual identities

2.Merge within a restraining collective

3.Only at work or waiting to be deployed, no more separation of living/ work

4.Precisely operated (by the schedule or implicit discipline)

In brief, the modern nomads are inside a big interior they cannot leave. The nomad space can relate to the disciplinary institution by Michel Foucault who describes it as “ a type of power that traverses every kind of apparatus or institution, linking them, prolonging them, and making them converge and function in a new way”. In a way, each of them plays a part in the system and operates as a resource. This new understanding builds up a foundation for our critical thinking in Studio 2.

"Thingness" is pressed to the point of caricature. He is indeed artistically reborn as he moves freely among the physical and symbolic materials of his environment, but mockery is his birth certificate and his passport A sense of having no outlet for his loyalties and no symbolic structure for his achievements. This is the guilt of social breakdown.

He is profoundly attracted to the idea of making all things, including himself, totally new — to the "mode of transformation." But he is equally drawn to an image of a mythical past of perfect harmony and prescientific wholeness, to the "mode of restoration." His difficulty is that focused indignation is as hard for him to sustain as is any single identification or conviction.

Two Dreams

Site as a stage

We consider the neo nomad people non-contextual, non-national, no-identity and perhaps multilingual. Neo-nomad people are detached from places; entering and exiting a new place puts another layer on top of their identity and may temporarily remove the old one. It is one's identity that informs one's interpretation of space; their identity fragments decide that their perception of the space might not entirely be dependent on the space itself.

In contrast, the Non-nomad people are deeply attached to a familiar space and might consider the neo-nomad people intruders. We discussed the co-existing smooth area where the two encounter and live at the end of studio one.

This stage is not just a physical meeting point of the two's paths, but also the overlapping of their perception of space as "destiny". It is a complex structure that notions of demands layering together. What will happen when neo-nomads become still and the boundary between their territory starts to blur?

The composition of Nomadland can be seen as an accidental attack against the desire- machine. The enclosure of production is uncovered and expanded to a broader field which becomes the stage for the encounter. By this approach, we invite the perspective of “outsiders”, they approach every situation like an intruder, completely foreign and amazed, and form their opinion of this absurd, sophisticated system. It helps to build duality within the stage: nomad / non-nomad, living / production, dissonance / harmony, control / liberate…

Nomad--Non Nomad

Human--Machine

Living--Production/infrastructure

Systematic--Random

Dissonance--Harmony

Free--Control

Production--Reproduction

Programming

Programming of the basic physicality of this complex field helped us to define its function and mechanism at an early stage. We imagine the Nomadland as a machine that has been naturally built for supporting modern production, and it grew through time in tune with the industry development around the North Sea. It is initially just a simple platform for long term offshore operations. However, it has to constantly deconstruct and reoperate itself to adapt to the growing demand for the rapid industry expansion and result as a hybrid system which facilitates synchronised activities including production, service, living and entertainment.

Entertainment

Servicing Living

Nomad Space: Industrial Hub

Chapter I: Twelve Tales

This Chapter aims to unveil the formation of twelve tales as well as to introduce our methodology of using storytelling as a device for understanding and testing critical thinking around the idea of Nomadland. It presents an interesting interaction between essay, collage, script and drawing.

It also includes detailed descriptions of each tale. The process behind the scene explains our own interpretation of nomad theory and the possibility of bringing these materials back to the bigger story.

Tale I: Check Point Theory

"identity diffusion" or "identity confusion

The protean man self-process of the modern nomad people, as they travel through spaces, they constantly update their identity influenced by their natural and cultural surroundings. The overlapping of the passport stamps represented identity confusion in nomad people, which eventually becomes pitch black. This black part demonstrates the state of the confused identity. There is a lot, but you cannot define any from it.

Merleau-Ponty as a ‘proto-post humanist’ thinker， believes in a fluid definition of the individual self, For it is quite possible that even the image of personal identity, in so far as it suggests inner stability and sameness, is derived from a vision of a traditional culture in which man's relationship to his institutions and symbols are still relatively intact.

The protean style of self-process, then, is characterized by an interminable series of experiments and explorations - some shallow, some profound - each of which may be readily abandoned in favour of still new psychological quests.n" everything. In attending, as in being, nothing is "off-limits."

keyword: Identity confusion/self-process

Tale I: Check Point

This is an area where six countries meet, and the six border walls released from the center of the area delineate the territories of these countries at the intersection. In order to facilitate the administration of various countries, although people can travel freely between countries, when people go to one of the countries, they must pass through each of the two countries in turn. When passing through the checkpoint, people passing through will hand in their documents belonging to the previous country and then accept the new documents from this country. During the repeated shuttle between countries, the documents that symbolize their identity are constantly changing.

This scene depicts a person walking through checkpoints and changing identities incessantly. This process is a condensed expression of the constantly changing self-identity during the journey of one’s life. In our opinion, this situation is more clearly manifested in the nomad group: When they (people from various cultural backgrounds) work on a boat (at sea), they no longer have the sustenance of their original identity. They were also given a new identity, a new nation that crossed the original cultural barriers.

Tale II: Lightbox

Performance between Supervisors

Supervisors have long been used to oversee the work of workers in order to improve their efficiency. Whether it was the early plantations in North America or the practices of factory owners during the Industrial Revolution, supervisors have long been part of the production process. In recent times, a new form of the supervisory model has emerged in certain places. People have placed orders for products and watched their products being made out by workers on live streaming platforms (and these people are often also additional wage earners who create other values in their day-today lives). This act of bringing the cloud of supervised labour is no longer just a spectacle of consumption. The model of combining consumption with supervision creates an organ of manufacturing: watching the production of workers' labour as if it were some kind of performance. What matters is not whether that mass of cloth, cotton and rubber, labelled as a cultural product is cute or not, and whether it is worth it, but that everyone is being alienated. What has consumer society turned us into?

keyword: capitalist alienation/supervisors

Tale II: Lightbox

This is a box with triple spaces which can be thought of it as a factory or a theatre for recreation. The spaces on both sides are two assembly lines. The two assembly lines are producing what each other needs which are separated. They can only remotely track each other’s efficiency through surveillance cameras. The space in the middle is used as a third-party perspective, and the people inside can also observe the production activities on both sides, but they only take this relationship of dependence and competition as entertainment.

The reason we call this space the lightbox is because we want to get out of the environment so that we can observe the behaviour in between as a more independent observer. For the people in the middle, they are not subject to any constraints, they are more like a manager, who condescendingly “appreciates” these workers. The people on both sides are rather interesting. They supervise the production activities of another group of people through the behaviour of ‘cloud supervisors’.

To some extent, production activities are openly entertained (cyber supervisor), and the desire for consumption is directly attached to the repeated acceleration of the assembly line. Various departments within a process are inseparable, so mutual monitoring occurs within the enterprise.

Tale III: The Second Coming

Theory

Cargo Cult Curture/Technology Worship

As first been created after an indigenous religion that emerged in the post-World War II South Pacific. As described by Richard Feynman in his presentation: During the war, these natives saw a lot of good materials when the planes landed during the war. Admirers build something like an airport runway and everything else that appears to be present at an airport in anticipation of getting those goods in this seemingly perfect form.

These observed behaviours of manipulating machines have been limited to scientifically useful results. In the current situation, where information barriers exist and are relatively complex, this technology worship is no longer the prerogative of indigenous people. The unethical and deceptive use of science in modern society and the use of this opaque messaging to falsely promote one's own results and try to gain people's trust. And the public increasingly lacks self-thinking and blindly believes in these stories.

keyword: technology worship/unremembered

Tale III: The Second Coming

There is an ancient ceremony in the village. On the second Sunday of every month, the village will hold a ceremony: people will put a long and flat ‘pillar’ built by everyone into the river, let it run and flow down.

People can’t remember when this ceremony started. The elders in the village just answered the question of the younger generation like this: There is a temple at the end of the river, the owner of the temple will gladly accept people’s gifts, and he will also give people sunshine, food and shelter. No one has ever thought about what this temple looks like, nor how long the river is. Day after day…

This story stems from people’s concerns about the production process of making windmill blades in the wind power industry. When people are no longer aware of these energy conversion processes, or how wind power is produced (and people don’t actually know it), but just think that such a factory or form can get the supply of energy in return. This kind of technology worship refers to blindly believing in the ‘beautiful’ results that certain technology can bring, so that people tend to focus on the new life brought about by new technologies, rather than those ‘by-products’.

Tale IV: Inside The Whale Theory

Human as Resource

In Lefebvre's view, people's daily lives had become controlled by the bourgeoisie, and no matter how trivial a thing they did, they were manipulated into doing it. People in modern society have become puppets under the alienation of everyday life and do not understand their own lives very well. This can be seen as alienation in industrial development. In the process of capital growth, all human and non-human beings are treated equally as resources and are required to be on standby.

Marx also said that labour has become a means of sustaining the physical existence of the worker, that the worker has no freedom in the production process, and that the class nature of the worker himself is not realized in the labour process. In modern nomadic life, the line between life and work has blurred. Workers have lived at sea for a long time but have never called this place home.

keyword: human as resource/distribute/manipulation

Tale IV: Inside The Whale

The whale was discovered by the young fishermen, they described how big it is and how speculating each time it sprays. But no one on the coastal believes it, because even the oldest seafarer has not ever seen the whales on the North Sea.

The machine whale was assembled by siemens the industry giant of offshore wind farms for operations and maintenance of wind turbines. Each worker is assigned with a specific number and a dorm. They don’t even move themselves because inside the whale everything is controlled by machinery operation within a precise timetable; including eating, showering and entertainment such as watching a concert All dwellers are transferred to work in their working shift terms.

Recorded by the seafarer. It comes from the alienation in industrial development. In the capital growth, all humans and non-humans are treated equally as resources which are ordered to stand by. The separation between living and working is blurred in modern nomad life. They live on the sea for the long term but could never be called the place a home.

Tale V: Rhythm Place

Theory

Rhythm and Time

According to Lefebvre, time is the more important connotation of rhythm. Without repetition in time and space, without starting again, without returning, there would be no rhythm. Measure or time is then embodied in the rhythm of diversity. In his book Rhythm Analysis, Lefebvre divides repetition into cyclic repetition and linear repetition.

It is the dialectical movement between cyclical cycles and linear repetition that constitutes time and rhythm. In the deep structure of modernity and everyday constructions, the interplay between diverse and unified rhythms increasingly manifests itself as a violent conflict between them, with linear social rhythms altering and controlling the natural rhythms of cyclicality. As a result, modern everyday life is increasingly moulded into a monotonous linear repetition, the eternal cycle of the same becoming a fundamental feature of modern everyday life, the homogeneity and fragmentation of space and time leading to the emptiness of life. As a result, people in everyday life are caught in a paradoxical situation: they can experience ‘undeniable satisfaction’ and feel ‘deeply depressed’ at the same time. However relentless and cruel the monotony of linear time may be, the natural rhythms of the universe and vitality continue to have an impact on everyday life. Only when people are consciously aware that their lives are bound up in the ‘rhythm of appearances’, the ‘mirror image’ of life, can they return to their bodies and create a vibrant space of difference and a festive, modern everyday life in accordance with the real needs of life.

keyword: cyclical cycles/linear repetition/monotonous/diversity

Tale V: Rhythm Place

People often understand rhythm as a mechanical act, a movement, a beat, but in fact, rhythm is a temporal concept within a Spatio-temporal unity. Rhythm necessarily unfolds in space and time, where time and space are unified in rhythm. In rhythmic space, the rhythms of different people crisscross, either parallel or intersecting in space. In each area, there are centralised rhythmic direction changeover stations. In the changeover stations, one can choose how and where to move in the next section.

It is the dialectical movement between cyclical cycles and linear repetition that constitutes time and rhythm. In the deep structure of modernity and everyday constructions, the interplay between diverse and unified rhythms increasingly manifests itself as a violent conflict between them, with linear social rhythms altering and controlling the natural rhythms of cyclicality. As a result, modern everyday life is increasingly moulded into a monotonous linear repetition, the eternal cycle of the same becoming a fundamental feature of modern everyday life, the homogeneity and fragmentation of space and time leading to the emptiness of life. People in everyday life are caught in a paradoxical situation: they can experience ‘undeniable satisfaction’ and feel ‘deeply depressed’ at the same time. However relentless and cruel the monotony of linear time may be, the natural rhythms of the universe and vitality continue to have an impact on everyday life. Only when people are consciously aware that their lives are bound up in the ‘rhythm of appearances’, the ‘mirror image’ of life, can they return to their bodies and create a vibrant space of difference and a festive, modern everyday life in accordance with the real needs of life.

Tale VI: Mall City Theory

Consumerism Alienation

When people create advanced machines and apply them in daily production and life, this process not only improves social productivity and material wealth, but also stimulates social consumption. Consumers become machines of production and consumption. People are manipulated to buy goods, immersed in the sensory and psychological pleasure brought by consumption, and conduct aimless and irrational consumption. The promotion of merchants through various channels also stimulates the generation of consumption alienation. In order to mobilize people’s desire for consumption, capitalists will shoot and publish various advertisements to induce and encourage people to consume. After a long period of bombarded advertising campaigns, the desires, needs and emotions of consumers have become objects that capitalists can control and manipulate. In a society where consumerism prevails, commodities are not produced for people’s needs, but exist to be consumed by people, and the meaning and value of life can only be reflected through consumption. However, no matter how rich the original life is, facing the infinite desire for consumption, it is also somewhat stretched, and at the same time consumption cannot find the true meaning and value of life. Flooding of imagery produced by the extraordinary flow of post-modem cultural influences over mass communication networks. be overwhelmed by superficial messages and undigested cultural elements, headlines and by endless partial alternatives in every sphere of life.

keyword: consumerism/flood of images

Tale VI: Mall City

It is a huge, centered, square city. There are only five elements in the city: housing, working areas, a towered mall in the center of the city, a high wall that completely separates the working and living areas, and one and only one passage that connects the working and living areas.

The presence of high walls and passageways makes it certain that people will pass through the central mall on their way to their work areas (or back). Like the usual shopping malls, this one is filled with novelty advertisements and a wide range of products. All the windows in this city face the malls, and people live and work outside of them, never escaping the publicity and advertising of the malls 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as if their job is to consume.

This is a reflection of the fact that in a consumerist world, the architectural industry and urban planning are no longer centered on culture but on consumption itself. This manifestation of consumerism also reflects the fact that people no longer have the power to make their own choices under the control of big data. Their choices are forever influenced by propaganda and inescapable brainwashing.

Tale VII: How Soon Is Now

Theory

Transient State

Compared to the entire history of nature, the emergence of humans and cities is only transient.

For centuries, the main ideal of architecture has been a solid, resistant and inflexible entity with a lasting and stable order to the surrounding life scene. Just as the presence of urbanization forces animals to change their way of life, or to find the next viable habitat. The cities where humans live are also greatly influenced by nature.

The development and evolution of the city is the result of the confrontation and coexistence of architecture and nature When the threat to the city gradually increases, human beings are naturally coerced, imprisoned, and even forced to move. To survive, space requirements are also gradually transient. Humans are a product of nature, and all human work, their physical practices, buildings, and artefacts, evolve and develop over time and become part of nature.

keyword: Transient/Confrontation

Tale VII: How Soon Is Now

The hut stands alone on the glacier. Day after day, the glacier breaks up into icebergs, drifting with the waves, floating in and out of the wind, snow and crash. A sudden storm destroys the only shelter. The storm continues all day and J, the only inhabitant, is forced to embark on another journey to find the next place to live. He made his way to a frozen lake halfway up the mountain. As the wind and snow eased and his vision became clearer, J looked at his own shadow on the ice and was lost in thought. As he was about to get up and set off again, he noticed a dark, haloed shadow deep in the ice, and as he lay on his back, his eyes widened as he looked down, and there were houses frozen in the ice! They were either broken or intact and even had different architectural forms, mostly leftover from different periods. It turned out that there had been other people living on this iceberg, and that some of the houses had even been frozen suddenly, perhaps before anyone had had time to escape. In his memoirs to his children and grandchildren, J wrote, After that, I stopped being all whiny and defiant. Compared to the majestic world of nature, man is a mere flash in the pan.

All the hard entities and so-called solid orders created for the sake of life are fighting against nature every moment of every day. The only way to stop and go is to follow the guidance of nature. Perhaps in the next habitable place, one can do something to stop this great storm, perhaps nothing. One day humanity will find a way to live in peace with nature and a balance between transience and permanence. Humanity and all the products of modernity, from the beginning of their existence and even their constant evolution and coexistence, are ultimately part of nature.

Tale VIII: Back Of House

Theory

Production Space

Lefebvre argues that in modern societies, when space as a whole enters into a modern, capitalist mode of production, it is used to produce surplus value. Land, underground resources, air and light above ground are all part of the productive forces and the products they produce.

Urban constructions where space has multiple networks of intercourse and exchange are likewise part of the means of production. The town and its various facilities (post offices, railway stations - warehouses, transport systems and services of all kinds) are all fixed capital. At the same time, the division of labour affects the spatial whole - and not just the ‘workspace’, nor the factory floor. The space as a whole becomes an object of productive consumption, as do the plants, factories, machines, raw materials and labour itself. He points out that the history of capitalism is one in which the bourgeoisie has constantly reinvented and exploited space; and that space, as an implicit element, has actually participated in the process of capitalist expansion and reproduction as a means of production.

The constitution of the urban environment is a product of historical notions of space, layered on top of each other to create the unique environment that contemporary inhabitants face.

keyword: Hierarchy/boundary/hidden production

Tale VIII: Back Of House

It is a huge building, although it looks like a few floors from the ground, there are layers and layers of space beneath it. Above ground, it is a cheerful, relaxing space: people enjoy food and games in it. Below the ground are all the facilities and productive aspects of people’s lives that are designed to support the upper levels. Layer after layer, each lower layer exists for the activities of the upper layer, and there is an unbridgeable barrier between the layers.

A relationship between production and living is depicted here. Whatever the system, there is a pyramid-like structure. Production hides beneath living and supports living’s existence. There is again a stronger contrast between them. We want to allude to the relationship between the nomad and the citizen, and whether the nomad’s existence or value is really only for the other activities of the citizen. What is the experience of the people, or rather of the other people, in order for the system in the city to function in a balanced way?

Tale IX: Turn On The Sun

Theory

Environment Modification

In the first fifth of the 21st century, mankind has already experienced several natural disasters of a century’s duration, and the triumph over nature will always be a dream that seems to be within its reach but is nevertheless out of reach. In fact, in its long history of activity and development, mankind has already been trying to use its abilities to actively or perhaps passively change the environment in which it lives.

Artificial rainfall can increase the likelihood of rainfall through catalysts, and afforestation can absorb carbon dioxide. At the same time, in the building profession, intelligent building systems technology allows a wide range of electrical installations to respond interactively where and when the user requires them, meeting the requirements of safety, protection, comfort, economy and energy efficiency at the scale of the building.

Building technology allows people to control, simulate and, indeed, create environments. The building (or even the city) is a regulated container: the lighting, thermostats and ventilation systems within the space create a carefully designed, completely internal environment, depending on the function required. Thus, perhaps we no longer need the external natural environment but an artificial container that can control, centralize, orchestrate, dominate our living environment.

keyword: human control

Tale IX: Turn On The Sun

People say that this place has four seasons, but they all feel like spring. This city by the sea, despite being located in one of the coldest regions on earth, has the exact same climate and temperature every day, 12 months of the year. Every day at 8:00 am, a fiery ball like the sun will be lifted from outside the city by a large shelf to illuminate the whole city, and this shelf will also drag the ‘sun’ to move to simulate the normal east rise and west fall. The temperature, humidity and light of the city are monitored by different types of detectors everywhere in the city and the data is adjusted by different devices so that the people living in the city feel perfectly warm and the same everywhere.

Perhaps in the future, the expanded use of clean energy will make it possible for mankind to stop suffering from energy shortages. People will be able to use these clean energy sources with confidence to make their cities more livable and less affected by the natural climate.

Tale X: Cloud Platform

Theory

'Individual existence' or 'Collective existence'

With the advent of the modern era, mankind has entered a non-religious stage in history. At this time, although human beings possessed unprecedented technology and civilization, they also discovered their homelessness. With the absence of religion, the all-encompassing framework, man becomes not only nothing but a fragmented being. The individual has no sense of belonging and considers himself an outsider in this human society.

Existentialism in the philosophical theories also came into being: Exploring the meaning of the individual's existence from the centre of the human being. At the same time, the existence of individual consciousness makes groups with the same individual consciousness gradually form small groups one after another and then raised new collective consciousness. As in the dialectics of collectivism: Humans are originally social animals. In terms of internal and external spirituality, it is determined in the depths of genes that people should live in groups to obtain spiritual comfort; From the external perspective, with the extreme development of society, the social division of labour is more subdivided, and it is more difficult for individuals to exist. Individual existence and collective existence are not a pair of right and wrong.

keyword: Individual/Collective/Belonging

Tale X: Cloud Platform

It is a place enveloped in a thick fog that envelops people as soon as they step into the space. When people are alone in a location, the pitch blackness prevents them from feeling the changes in space and the flow of time. However, this phenomenon changes markedly when people try to get together with others: a light will come from high up, illuminating the group gathered together, and a breeze will blow, lifting the fog from this small space. The more the crowd gathered, the larger the illuminated area became, and this waxed and waned. A small mass of light also appears in this world shrouded in darkness and fog.

The scenario is based on the idea that in modern development the individual’s existence is no longer entirely under his or her control. The value of the individual’s existence is also in question. Can the individual exist independently of the collective? Is there an illusion that the nomad community, in the evolving modern world, can clearly perceive its own existence as dying out? Are these nomads, as described in ‘Waiting for Godot’:

Lets go. They do not move.

Tale XI: Walk In Emmental

Theory

‘Universal Space’ and ‘Non-place’

Created by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, Non-place refers to an ephemeral anthropological space in which humans remain anonymous and which does not have sufficient meaning to be considered a “place” in the anthropological definition. According to Augé, the concept of non-place is opposed to the concept of ‘anthropological place’. This place offers people a space that gives them an identity, where they can meet other people with whom they share a social references. In contrast, non-places are not meeting spaces and do not establish a common reference to groups.

This global perception of a certain type or ‘category’ of space creates a physical expectation of what we are about to experience. It is only through habituation that we acquire the ability to ‘habituate’ space, as familiarity allows us to easily navigate and focus on the task at hand. In the spaces we use regularly, we have an implicit bodily awareness of where objects are located, so we can move around with relative ease and without conscious effort.

A parallel tendency in recent history – from Mies van der Rohe to Rem Koolhaas – is to move towards a kind of loose-fitting or ‘universal space’ that avoids any obvious functional symbolism. D.J. Van Lennep uses the hotel room to define the antithesis to home, through its blank ambiguity that contains no trace of one’s self.

keyword: universal/belonging/non-place/movement

Tale XI: Walk In Emmental

What does the inside of Emmental cheese look akin to? This sizably voluminous ‘Emmental’ just straddles a highway. It’s like one deep aperture after another on its cut surface, with one passage after another connected behind it? The interior of this Emmental Cheese is hollow, with nothing but individual passages. People are inside, running, ambulating through, always on the road, and nothing ever transpires.

‘Walk in Emmental’ is a combination of imaginary space and concrete things. It emphasizes a storyless movement and migration. As we have shown in the results of the Studio One study.

The development of the North Sea will bring a large-scale migration of nomad groups, as well as various transient events. Under this influence, the structure of the city will gradually degenerate into non-place without identities, such as airports and train stations. This story explores the implications of expanding the airport concept into a city. To what extent does this act of ‘departure’ and ‘arrival’ affect our perception of Nomadland?

Tale XII: The Concern From A Family

Theory

Uncontrolled Technology

As Heidegger’s fable says technology is “not a human activity” but develops beyond human control; The problems of our time are many, but technological problems are at the heart of them, because most of the other problems are unleashed by modern technology-industry-commerce. Technology has developed to the point where mankind is immensely concerned about technological issues, especially now with artificial intelligence and biotechnology, making us more concerned than ever about the future destiny of humanity. Science has developed a power that cannot be found anywhere else on earth and is in the process of extending that power eventually over the entire planet. From the perspective of architectural and urban development, the uncontrolled development of science and technology has made the areas where these technologies are used more dependent on their existence and controlled by them.

We predict that the infrastructure of the ‘niche’ areas will continue to expand as the economy develops, and that this growth will be unconscious and autonomous. We are concerned that in the context of this non-stop growth, resources are constantly being absorbed and taken up, particularly in terms of geographical space: industrial areas are encroaching on the inner city, ports are expanding into the sea, etc.

keyword: uncontrol/power/develop