Nomadopolis: A Manual for Post-Drought (Re)Territorialization

Carbon ways of infrastructurally bringing in water have caused deeper and deeper droughts throughout the last century. Nomadopolis proposes a city for thirsty people, a city for a post drought society that understands the need for reusing water. A city for people that respects a non aggressive way of living with the ecosystem but at the same time dependent on technological fabrication processes. The drought is probably the most self-inflicted disaster of them all. We propose a nomadic way of thinking, as Deleuze and Guattari propose, we are thinking about a culture of people that has the same narrative of state critique. We can no longer as nomads stop becoming, and think such a complex situation has a square answer. Therefore, we are creating not only a project, but a culture, a project that becomes a narrative, a project about the ever becoming, a nomad project that crystalizes itself as a nomadic form of urbanism. We propose a city that becomes whatever lake it searches for, thus we are doing a manual for post drought reterritorialization.

The sequence of the disaster shows the distribution of water from tanks and wells constituted according to the relationships of the organisms. The distribution of drinking water in the temples works in loops from conduits under the wooden platforms. The water is distributed inside the dwellings and after being used, the black water is recycled by organisms in order to distribute gray water into the basins to feed the greenhouses. All the excess water goes to the wells organism that store and make a feedback loop of the reuse of water. In the visualization we can see a view from the inside of a greenhouse constituted by arches and algae, looking down on the nomadic city. The water organism will have double function of being a canoe that would help fishing activities for fooding.

Each organism in contact with the same organism will merge into either a larger slab, a larger sphere, a larger arch or a larger water reservoir. Then, water temples emerge, then the junkspace in between slabs that contain water organisms transform themselves into rainwater capture devices. Then, water temples are interconnected. After this, the water wells are created, then, the recycling facilities. The air organisms transform into the housing units, and the latter are connected to the recycling facilities and the water reservoirs. At last, fire organisms create algae covered greenhouses.

The organisms relate to each other depending whether they  are in contact or not. When the earth slabs are in contact they merge, creating one large non uniform platform. When the slabs are in contact with the air spheres they create housing that functions either  as a connector between slabs or as foundation for a half sphere. When in contact, fire organisms and slabs create post plastic algae greenhouses. If intersected, the water containers and the slabs create covered water fountains that function as temples. If not, then water containers cover the junkspace between slabs, functioning as rain water capture devices. The fire organism and the Air organism if in contact they create a sphere covered with vegetation, if not, they extend themselves to create an individual greenhouse for the housing spheres. If the spheres are in contact with water organisms they function as water recycling facilities. If not, they become wells.

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