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

翻译人员: Zhu Jie 校对人员: Xiangdian Chen

Why grow homes? Because we can.

为什么要让房子长起来？因为我们能做到。

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

当前，美国正处在一种持续损伤的状态中。

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

这是有原因的。

We've got McPeople, McCars, McHouses.

我们有不健康的人、不健康的车、和不健康的房子。

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

作为一个建筑师，我不得不面对这样的现状。

So what's a technology that will allow us

那么，什么样的技术可以让我们

to make ginormous houses?

建出巨大的房子呢？

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

嗯，这种技术已经存在大约2500年了。

It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together,

它叫“编织法”，或者说是将树木移植嫁接到一起，

or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system.

将可以融合的物质嫁接到一起，形成一个血脉相连的系统。

And we do something different

我们做的

than what we did in the past;

与过去略有不同。

we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that.

我们在其中加入了一点点“智慧”的元素。

We use CNC to make scaffolding

我们利用计算机数控（CNC）技术建造脚手架，

to train semi-epithetic matter, plants,

将植物的苗

into a specific geometry

编织成特定的几何形体。

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

这种几何形体就是我们称之为“绝妙树居（Fab Tree Hab）”的雏形。

It fits into the environment. It is the environment.

它和环境融为一体。它本身就是环境。

It is the landscape, right?

它就是风景，是的。

And you can have a hundred million of these homes,

你可以造出成万上亿的这种房子。

and it's great because they suck carbon.

这个想法很绝妙，因为它们吸收二氧化碳。

They're perfect.

它们很完美。

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

你可以让一亿个家庭搬进郊区里的这种新居，郊外里无用的东西不复存在，

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

因为这些家都成了环境的一部分。

Imagine pre-growing a village --

想象一下预先种植的村庄 -

it takes about seven to 10 years --

大概花了7-10年 -

and everything is green.

一切都是绿色的。

So not only do we do the veggie house,

我们不仅种植物居所，

we also do the in-vitro meat habitat,

也研究通过试管培植肉来长出居所，

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

我们正在布鲁克林做相关的研究。

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

那里作为一个建筑办公室，史无前例地，

to put in a molecular cell biology lab

在实验室里首次引入分子细胞学，

and start experimenting with regenerative medicine

并开始做可再生药品的实验，

and tissue engineering

以及组织工程。

and start thinking about what the future would be

我们开始想着把建筑和生物结合在一起，

if architecture and biology became one.

我们的未来会怎样。

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

我们从事这些研究有几年了，那就是我们的实验室。

And what we do is we grow

我们所做的就是从猪身上

extracellular matrix from pigs.

提取细胞外基质并让它生长。

We use a modified inkjet printer,

我们使用一种改良过的喷墨打印机

and we print geometry.

并用它来打印几何体。

We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects

我们打印可以制作出工业设计品的几何体

like, you know, shoes, leather belts,

例如大家都知道的鞋、皮带

handbags, etc.,

手提包等等。

where no sentient creature is harmed.

在此过程中，没有有感官的生物会受到伤害。

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

这个过程中没有受害者。用的肉来自于试管。

So our theory is that eventually

我们的理论是，最终，

we should be doing this with homes.

我们应该把这项技能用在制造家园上。

So here is a typical stud wall,

这是一面典型的立柱墙

an architectural construction,

建筑结构。

and this is a section

这是我们“肉屋”计划

of our proposal for a meat house,

的一个部分

where you can see we use fatty cells as insulation,

从中你可以看到，我们用脂肪丰富的细胞做隔热体，

cilia for dealing with wind loads

用纤毛承受风力，

and sphincter muscles for the doors and windows.

用括约肌做门窗。

(Laughter)

（观众笑声）

And we know it's incredibly ugly.

我们知道这让人难以置信地丑。

It could have been an English Tudor or Spanish Colonial,

它可以被建成英国都铎建筑式，或者西班牙殖民风格的建筑，

but we kind of chose this shape.

但是我们还是选了一个大概如此的形状。

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

那里它像是已经成长起来了，至少部分成长起来了。

We had a big show in Prague,

我们在布拉格进行了一场大展览。

and we decided to put it in front of the cathedral

并且我们决定将它放在大教堂门前，

so religion can confront the house of meat.

这样宗教之屋与科技之屋就迎面遭遇了。

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

这就是我们“种植”家园的原因。非常感谢。

(Applause)

（观众掌声）