Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!

Translator: Helena Bedalli Reviewer: Amantia Gjikondi

Why grow homes? Because we can.

Pse te rrisim shtepi? Sepse eshte e mundur.

Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma.

Ne kete moment Amerika eshte ne gjendje traume.

And there's a cause for that, all right.

Ka nje arsye per kete, sigurisht.

We've got McPeople, McCars, McHouses.

Kemi McNjerezit, McMakinat, McShtepite.

As an architect, I have to confront something like this.

Si arkitekt, me duhet te perballem me kete gje.

So what's a technology that will allow us

Pra, cila eshte ajo teknologji qe do te na lejoje

to make ginormous houses?

te bejme shtepi gjigande?

Well, it's been around for 2,500 years.

Eh mire, ka ekzistuar qe prej 2500 vjetesh.

It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together,

Quhet shartim i pemeve se bashku,

or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system.

ose bashkim i dy sistemeve vaskulare ngjitur,

And we do something different

Ne bejme dicka ndryshe

than what we did in the past;

nga ajo qe kemi bere me pare.

we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that.

I shtojme nje sasi te vogel inteligjence.

We use CNC to make scaffolding

Kemi bere llogaritjet per te ndertuar skelen

to train semi-epithetic matter, plants,

per te detyruar lenden semi-epitetike, bimet

into a specific geometry

ne nje forme gjeometrike specifike.

that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab.

per te krjuar nje shtepi qe e kemi quajtur "Banim Bimor Gjenial".

It fits into the environment. It is the environment.

I pershtatet mjedisit. Eshte mjedisi.

It is the landscape, right?

Eshte peisazhi, apo jo?

And you can have a hundred million of these homes,

Dhe mund te prodhohen njeqind milione nga keto shtepi.

and it's great because they suck carbon.

dhe eshte mire, sepse thithin gazin karbonik.

They're perfect.

Jane perfekte.

You can have 100 million families, or take things out of the suburbs,

Mund te strehosh 100 milion familje ose te pastrosh periferite e qytetit,

because these are homes that are a part of the environment.

sepse keto shtepi jane pjese e mjedisit natyral.

Imagine pre-growing a village --

Imagjino te fillosh te rrisesh nje fshat --

it takes about seven to 10 years --

duhen 7 deri ne 10 vjet --

and everything is green.

dhe gjithcka eshte gjelber.

So not only do we do the veggie house,

Nuk bejme vetem shtepi bimore,

we also do the in-vitro meat habitat,

po ashtu dhe banime me baze mishi ne laborator,

or homes that we're doing research on now in Brooklyn,

ose rastet qe po studiojme per momentin,

where, as an architecture office, we're for the first of its kind

ne studion e arkitektures ne Brooklyn, dhe jemi te paret

to put in a molecular cell biology lab

qe kemi instaluar nje laborator te biologjise molekulare

and start experimenting with regenerative medicine

per te bere kerkime ne fushen e mjekesise rigjeneruese

and tissue engineering

dhe inxhinierse se fibrave

and start thinking about what the future would be

dhe filluam te mendojme se cila do te ishte e ardhmja

if architecture and biology became one.

nese arkitektura dhe biologjia behen nje.

So we've been doing this for a couple of years, and that's our lab.

Kemi dy vjet qe po bejme kete, ja laboratori yne.

And what we do is we grow

Dhe ajo qe bejme eshte qe ne rrisim

extracellular matrix from pigs.

inde ekstracelulare nga derrat.

We use a modified inkjet printer,

Perdorim nje printer te modifkuar.

and we print geometry.

dhe printojme forma gjeometrike.

We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects

Ne printojme forma gjeometrike e mund te bejme objekte te dizajnit industrial

like, you know, shoes, leather belts,

si, kepuce, rripa lekure,

handbags, etc.,

canta, etj.,

where no sentient creature is harmed.

ku gjerat e gjalla nuk jane demtuar.

It's victimless. It's meat from a test tube.

S'ka viktima. Eshte mish ne epruvete.

So our theory is that eventually

Teoria jone eshte qe me ne fund

we should be doing this with homes.

duhet te jemi ne gjendje te bejme te njejten gje edhe me shtepite.

So here is a typical stud wall,

Pra ky eshte nje mur tipik,

an architectural construction,

nje konstruksion arkitektonik,

and this is a section

dhe ky eshte nje seksion

of our proposal for a meat house,

i propozimit per shtepine prej mishi,

where you can see we use fatty cells as insulation,

ku ju shihni qe kemi perdorur qelizat dhjamore si izolues,

cilia for dealing with wind loads

qerpiket per te perballuar eren

and sphincter muscles for the doors and windows.

dhe muskujt unazore per dyert dhe dritaret.

(Laughter)

(Te qeshura)

And we know it's incredibly ugly.

Dhe e dime qe eshte shume e shemtuar.

It could have been an English Tudor or Spanish Colonial,

Mund te ishte nje stil Tudor Anglez apo stil Spanjoll Kolonial,

but we kind of chose this shape.

por e zgjodhem vete kete forme.

And there it is kind of grown, at least one particular section of it.

Dhe eshte rritur, te pakten nje pjese e vecante e saj.

We had a big show in Prague,

Kemi bere nje ekspozite te madhe ne Prage,

and we decided to put it in front of the cathedral

dhe vendosem ta veme perpara katedrales

so religion can confront the house of meat.

ne menyre qe feja te takohej me shtepine prej mishi.

That's why we grow homes. Thanks very much.

Ja pse i rrisim shtepite. Faleminderit te gjitheve.

(Applause)

(Duartrokitje)