9.THE NOMADLAND-S3_3(FINAL Include Comic&Notebook)/RIBA Silver Medal Nomination

Concept Model

The Department of Well-being is a synchronous response to the company’s demands for homesickness prevention and treatment, regional supply (food and water), waste disposal & material recycling. This programme provides an experiential journey in which the workers can recover at the end of work. It also builds a direct relation between production and consumption, symbolizing the cycle of anthropocene material.

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shopping mall

tourist route

artificial sun

indoor farming

water purification system

disposal & recycle center

site development

Design of Mall: Drawings

The department is designed to connect factories and the living district as a joyful place where workers would recover themselves. It also deals with the resource transaction from the dock below to the shopping mall above. Therefore, it is a complex mediator in both horizontal and vertical. Its aesthetic is inspired by the complexity of Las Vegas strips, an impossible choreography of random form.

Design of Mall: Drawings

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Lingxi Tao, Emily Zhang, Ryan Wang

Team Nomad <info@teamnomad.uk>

Positive and Inverse space

Siqi Guo

March 24th, 2022

Dear Team,

These were diagrams we drew when meeting with the AOPIL last time.

We believe the tricky point at this stage is to consider how the workers and visitors share the whole “mall” space. The visitor should be able to see the workers on field, but not get in touch with them, so not disturbing their daily life. And they are not supposed to see the servicing space as well. Currently we don’t have a mature solution on that part.

Meanwhile, the mall meant to be sit on the automatic logistic port, so the activities inside the mall can be directly accessed from the port for food, goods, etc. The interior of this mall should be crossed by various vertical passages. We need to discuss this tomorrow.

Best Team Nomad

Cinema Station

Entrance to Mall (Vistors)

Entrance to Mall (Workers)

Workers Food Hall

Bar for Vistors

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Emily Zhang Ryan Wang

Re: Mall Unit Design

Lingxi Tao, Siqi Guo

March 26th, 2022

Hi Emily,

Sorry to disturb you, but we have had some problems with the design of the single units in the mall that need to be adjusted. At the previous meeting AOPIL asked us to provide more space for the Visitor. Obviously, we have made a mistake in judging the space in the mall and the vertical aisles you have previously designed are much larger than we can accept. Can you try to keep the size of the individual volumes to 25mx25m while retaining the original design logic?

Also, these spaces should ideally have the potential to change the way they are used and become more UNIVERSAL. Can you think about advertising display positions in your subsequent attempts? AOPIL has asked us to provide more promotional positions (for both workers and visitors).

Good Luck Ryan

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AOPIL

Team Nomad <info@teamnomad.uk>

Mall Solo Unit

Apirl 5th, 2022

Dear Laxy,

We have managed to created a new verson of the solo unit of the mall. We hope it can act the same as the previous proposal.

The overall size of the unit were managed to shrink down to what we discussed, meanwhile keep its load bearing ability to hold the mall structures. PS: only the top bit, the whole space of the Mall shall be lifted with the concrete piles from the old strengthened concrete base.

Lables:

1. main entrance of the shop

2. passenger lifts (with servicing lifts behind)

3. linked to sub-servicing level.

4. storage place for shop

5. sales area

6. shaft

Let us know if you have more concerns.

Best Team Nomad

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Lingxi <Lingxi.Tao@teamnomad.uk>

Siqi Guo

FW: see you next week

Ryan, Emily Apirl 12th, 2022

Dear Lingxi,

The AOPIL engineer has made some suggestions for the field equipment during the last meeting. As Emily went on Holiday, could you please do a brief study report for me on the two related systems mentioned by them (Hydraulic System and Pumped Storage Power)? Ryan and I might need some relevant information when we design the farm & disposal, thanks.

Siqi

Lingxi, Siqi, Ryan

Emily see you next week

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Apirl 8th, 2022

Hi Team Nomad

Hope everyone enjoys the Easter holiday so far, I’ll be away in Plymouth from 11th to 16th, When I come back could we meet again in the Manchester art gallery Cafe, on 18th Monday. So we could further discuss the outcome before the next meeting with the client.

Emily

1. metal disposal

2. control room

3. sound arrester

4. entrance from mall

5. vertical farming

6. soil tank

7. water aspirator

8. storage tank

9. ventilating shaft

Concept Model

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Lingxi Tao, Emily Zhang Team Nomad <info@teamnomad.uk>

The Visitor Route

Siqi Guo

Apirl 7th, 2022

Dear Lingxi and Emily,

We seem to be making good progress so far, and although our design has deviated somewhat from the previous direction so far, we are handling the unexpected issues very well.

Given that our project is progressing well, I think Siqi and I are ready to deal with the remaining issues from the previous design and communicate with AOPIL. In the meantime I think we can start the next phase of the design task.

I wonder if you two could do some preparatory work in advance before Siqi and I complete the current matter?

Basically, AOPIL wanted the site to be more than just an efficient production plant, but they wanted to be able to attract the city’s inhabitants to come and stay through an entertaining programme that would provide them with a constant supply of human resources to replace those who had left the factory. At the last meeting AOPIL felt that the tour could be short but that it had to give them a taste of all the wonderful scenes of modern industry, something they had not seen and learned about in the city. Just give it a try, we will join you short after.

Best Ryan

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Siqi Guo <Siqi.Guo@teamnomad.uk>

Lingxi <Lingxi.Tao@teamnomad.uk>

FW: Vistor’s experience

Ryan, Emily

Apirl 12th, 2022

Hi Siqi,

These are our initial ideas of how vistors visit the places through illustrations of different spaces. We are thinking about making the abandoned energy island next to the site as the reception of all vistors from the city (1). Vistor will then took the “pod” we talked about the other day across the site directly to the Hotel, they will have a glance of the factory during the journey(2). Then they will visit the museum, to learn more about AOLIP’s history and achivements(3). They will then walk into the mall where they can experiencing the exciting moment of the workers(4). Then took the “pod” back to the hotel. Tell me what you think.

Best Lingxi

Assimilation

Visitor route is a gripping journey in which space is the assistant of advertising. The Nomadland is a spectacle in dimensions of scale, complexity and vision, a programme where human activity coexists with industrial production. Well-organized space thread inside the plant gives a designed experience to the site. The site is a performance.

To immersive into the spatial experience, the visitors must shortly strip their own identity. The gate/reception rebuilt the original energy island into a gathering space. Visitors are requested to stop at the tollgate and directly transfer inside the lobby. The architecture portrait gives a sublime impression.

Impression

A Castle-Like Solid Bulk Embed Into

a Translucent Island

Gate + Reception + Living

Relation To Site

Scale Development(Section)

The Reception: Drawings

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Laxy <AOPIL>

Team Nomad <info@teamnomad.uk>

The Reception

Apirl 18th, 2022

Hi Laxy,

We don’t know if the meeting next Thursday will still go ahead as normal.We would like to focus on the design of the entrance section, of which there are a few points we might cover.

We want to use the disused energy island outside the site as a visitor reception area where visitors will be reorganised and distributed. We feel that allowing visitors’ private cars onto the site would significantly affect the design of the existing factory. We are considering allowing visitors to also ride on the rail system we have designed for workers to get to work, so that they can depart from the island and leave their cars uniformly on the island. The entire reception area on the island is surrounded by a car park where the cars are kept once visitors have entered and are waiting to be collected. PS: We have set up a segregation of people and vehicles at the front of the island so that people should get off early and walk to the island.

In this way we need to extend the previously designed track system that connects the island to the site. Let me know if you have any concern. Or see you next week.

Best

Team Nomad

Concept Model

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Siqi Guo <Siqi.Guo@teamnomad.uk>

Emily <Emily.Zhang@teamnomad.uk>

Re: Archive Space Diagrams

Ryan, Lingxi

Apirl 25th, 2022

Hi Siqi,

Hope you are feeling better now!

Please see the attached file for the altered version of the diagram study of the Archive Space.

Those diagrams are showing the structrue of the Archive Tower, how the tower, museum and the hotel sit with each other as well as the relation of how hotel facing the front plaza of the museum. I think it can explain a lot in respond to AOPIL’s concern last week.

We have reached the engineer yesterday, he confirmed that the old airport on the site is capable for adding what we are proposing on its top. Lingxi and I will speak with him again sometime next week to discuss how we might enlarge the current site to fit in the new airport, deck for servicing crew and a station for the maintenance of the “pods” on the site.

Do you think it is possible to use these set of diagrams in the meeting with AOPIL tomorrow?

Best Emily

For modernism and the avant-garde in the realm of art, the focus on everydayness is a demarcation from the old emblems. The subject has changed under the era of clean energy becoming the one that sustains human life, and also in the context of a company leading the revolution.

The Department of Archives collects, collates, and celebrates both physical and data resources. It is a closet that holding the inherent value of the company: each radical projects, products, technical revolutions as well as the recording of manufacturing data and human resources. Then the department itself becomes the culture.

The museum defines what is valuable in its time.

1. entrance

3. atrium

4. exhibition

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2. safty storage

full-size blade

tower of data

The visitors’ hotel is an independent structure facing toward the department of archives.

A ceremonial landscape avenue symbol as a pilgrimage to the culture of Nomadland. Visitors are socializing inside the lobby and allocated to separate zones. Each floor is a replica for equality and harmony. The walk-in shower hanging outside the main structure gives a panorama of the immense wind farm on the sea.

Epilogue

-The project was soon put into more detailed design stages. In collaboration with various teams, Nomadland was soon up and running on the North Sea.

-In 2055, the first phase of the Nomadland was finished. Hundreds of workers were there brought onto the sea.

-In 2060 Nomadland was officially opened to visitors and a steady stream of people flocked to this spectacle.

-From the moment it was built, the site became a benchmark for modern factories, and its presence replaced the large and small factories in the vicinity of the North Sea. Over the decades of its operation, it has supplied tens of thousands of windmill blades to the North Sea and AOPIL's wind farms have gradually covered the entire North Sea.

-Countless people have worked on it, and some have never left.

-A few years after it was built, our team visited Nomadland again and it was a very different place than it had been at the beginning.

-A few more years passed, and news came that nuclear fusion was officially in commercial operation and that wind power was no longer of interest to AOPIL.

-After completing the backlog of orders one after another, Nomadland came to a standstill position and was dismantled shortly thereafter. The Nomads then went on their separate roads.

-Every new report associated with this project, from the simplest inception, construction to the final demolition has created remarkable influences to the world. There were still few updates of Nomadland regularly after it was demolished to the point where only the original concrete plinth remained.

-Gradually, no one talks about it anymore.

The funny thing is that Nomadland is a word that four of us wrote down on a napkin over some Budweiser eight months ago, and no one could have imagined that a word we came up with for fun would be explored and experimented with. We deconstructed the meaning of Nomadland in different contexts and finally placed it in the North Sea.

We had thought countless times that this was a title that would be replaced sooner or later, not realising that Nomadland was with us, from winter to summer. Through countless discussions and arguments, it has always stood up in the paperwork.

It is possible that each of us has a different understanding of this word, and this difference can be seen to a greater or lesser extent in the various submissions we have made from Studio1/2/3.

Nomadland is a framework that should be applied not only to the North Sea, but to all kinds of places, representing a way of research, multiple forms of expression and countless feelings. In the last three creations (Comic, Note, Tale) we have not given them any order of reading or emotions to convey, everything is flat, expressing the reality of what is happening and giving the reader plenty of imaginations.

Thanks to Richard, Jack and Jamie for providing us with a stage where their knowledge, patience and trust that have allowed us to explore, develop and reject mediocrity.

I would like to personally thank my teammates who have overcome many obstacles over the past few months to put their talents to the Nomadland project. As the only person in the team responsible for organising and communicating their creations, I think I'm qualified to say that each of them has unique strengths and the outcome would not have been possible without any of them.

To The Ones Who Had to Depart

Sincerely, IbIs 05/11/2022