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

譯者: Audrey Liu 審譯者: 張新永 Davidchang

Why grow homes? Because we can.

為什麼要栽培生長房子呢？因為我們做得到

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

現在，美國正處在持續不斷的創傷狀態

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

這都是有原因的，好嗎

We've got McPeople, McCars, McHouses.

我們現在有漢堡人、漢堡車、漢堡房子這些產物

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

做為一個建築師，我不得不面對這樣的狀況

So what's a technology that will allow us

所以有什麼技術可以讓我們

to make ginormous houses?

建造這些極為巨大的房子？

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

其實這技術已經存在 2,500年了

It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together,

它叫做編結，或是把樹木嫁接在一起

or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system.

或把接合的物質連接在一起成為一個連續有脈絡的系統

And we do something different

而我們現在做的

than what we did in the past;

和過去不太一樣

we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that.

我們加了一點點智慧在裡面

We use CNC to make scaffolding

我們用電腦數值控制(CNC)的方式來製做支架

to train semi-epithetic matter, plants,

讓那些半成型的材料或植物往一定方向生長

into a specific geometry

形成一個特殊的造型

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

這就造就了我們所稱的「美樹居」

It fits into the environment. It is the environment.

它可以融入環境中，它其實就是環境本身

It is the landscape, right?

它就是造園景觀

And you can have a hundred million of these homes,

你可有成千上億這種住家

and it's great because they suck carbon.

它很棒，因為它會吸二氧化碳

They're perfect.

他們就是最完美無缺的

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

你可以有一億個家庭住在這裡，或者因為這些房子是環境中的一部份

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

所以可以把市郊的一些東西移除

Imagine pre-growing a village --

想像一個預先栽殖的村落 --

it takes about seven to 10 years --

大概花 7 到 10年的時間 --

and everything is green.

而且所有的東西都是綠色的

So not only do we do the veggie house,

我們不只是做植栽屋

we also do the in-vitro meat habitat,

我們也做試管肉居所

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

或是像我們現在在布魯克林所研究的房子

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

作為建築師辦公室，這是第一次

to put in a molecular cell biology lab

把分子細胞生物實驗室納入其中

and start experimenting with regenerative medicine

並且開始嘗試做再生醫學

and tissue engineering

與組織工程的實驗

and start thinking about what the future would be

我們開始思考如果建築與生物學結合為一

if architecture and biology became one.

的未來會是如何

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

所以我們已經做了好幾年的實驗，這就是我們的實驗室

And what we do is we grow

我們做的是提取豬的細胞外間質

extracellular matrix from pigs.

培養讓他生長

We use a modified inkjet printer,

我們用一種改良過的噴墨印表機

and we print geometry.

印製各種結構圖形

We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects

這些結構圖形是可以用來製成工業設計品的

like, you know, shoes, leather belts,

像是你們知道的鞋子、皮帶

handbags, etc.,

包包等等

where no sentient creature is harmed.

這些過程中沒有任何有感知的動物受到傷害

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

所以沒有犧牲品，都是從試管裡長出來的肉

So our theory is that eventually

因此，我們的理論是總有一天

we should be doing this with homes.

我們應該把他用在房子上

So here is a typical stud wall,

這就是一般的立柱牆

an architectural construction,

一個建築結構

and this is a section

這是我們所提議的

of our proposal for a meat house,

肉質屋的一部分

where you can see we use fatty cells as insulation,

從這裡你可以看到我們用脂肪細胞當絕緣材料

cilia for dealing with wind loads

用纖毛來應付風載的問題

and sphincter muscles for the doors and windows.

然後用括約肌來當門和窗戶

(Laughter)

(笑聲)

And we know it's incredibly ugly.

我們知道這看起來真的超醜

It could have been an English Tudor or Spanish Colonial,

我們可以把他做成英國都鐸時期或是西班牙殖民時代的樣子

but we kind of chose this shape.

不過我們就選擇這個樣式

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

這裡可以看到它開始長了，至少有一個特定部分在長

We had a big show in Prague,

我們在布拉格舉辦了一場盛大的展示會

and we decided to put it in front of the cathedral

當時我們就決定把它放在主教座堂的前面

so religion can confront the house of meat.

這樣宗教和肉屋就可以正面對決

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

這就是我們栽培房子的原因，非常感謝各位。

(Applause)

(鼓掌)