The Rhizomatic Lagoonopolis: Reterritorializing Post-Tsunami Natori for Tides and Seismic Energy

The disaster sequence simulates the construction of the city, in general steps, starting from the footprints that left the displacement and destruction of the buildings, after the tsunami disaster. It shows the city of Natori after the disaster of a supposed tsunami, and how from the remains of the destroyed constructions, the material is reused to create organisms in a gradual way. The sequence is shown in 3 parts, simulating a density of 50 dw/ha, then 100 dw/ha and finally 150 dw/ha, because of the use of material. This is decisive, since the post-disaster city uses the disaster to its advantage, being no longer a negative disaster. The post-disaster city craves the arrival of tsunamis in order to continue growing and being productive. It is a non ending productive loop.  Starting with the most hierarchical, the air or “disaster” organism is generated, with parallel direction as from the water, from the bottom up, then the creation of the earth organism, generating both new topographies. From this, water organisms are generated, both ocean water collectors as well as rainfall, allowing to provide water to the buildings that are generated later, the fire organisms. At the same time it will simulate the different water tides that occur in the site, low, high and tsunami tide, which had a maximum height in the case of the Tsunami disaster in 2010 of 8 m. Each of them create different conditions in the city, each of them productive in different ways, but never interrupting the city activities.

For the disjunctive synthesis of Natori, on the site, we first observe the combination that will determine the rest of the feedback loops: the combination between land and air. Taking into account the direction of the tsunami waves, the land organisms stretch in that direction, generating intersections between several of them, and different high points that will have a great importance in the fire organisms. Then, the water organisms that are below the land organisms, move and relate to the nearest water capture, multiplying, generating an even larger organism. The fire organisms in relation to the earth mounds, are related through the connection between the high points of these earth mounds, which have different heights, solidify taking into account the solar radiation, and generate asymmetrical bridges that interconnect all the high points of the site. Fourth, the combination of fire and fire will produce vertical density. Every time two fire organisms are detected together at the high points of the earth mounds, they will increase their height, generating different amounts of floors inside, where living spaces are housed. The more intersection, the greater the height and therefore, the greater the habitable density. Then, there is a second operation for the combination between earth and fire, where the fire organisms that remain below the high points are subtracted.  As for the air organisms, an emergent of the earth organisms are water capture towers, which are located at the low points of the earth mounds. Their difference with the other water organisms is that these capture rainwater, while the others capture sea water. These have the capacity of feeding water to the housing systems. When they collide with the fire organisms, the operations consist of lifting the towers, taking the housing organisms as a priority, and, on the other hand, they are subtracted when they interact with the fire circulating organisms.