Why grow homes? Because we can. Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma. And there's a cause for that, all right. We've got McPeople, McCars, McHouses. As an architect, I have to confront something like this.
Pse te rrisim shtepi? Sepse eshte e mundur. Ne kete moment Amerika eshte ne gjendje traume. Ka nje arsye per kete, sigurisht. Kemi McNjerezit, McMakinat, McShtepite. Si arkitekt, me duhet te perballem me kete gje.
So what's a technology that will allow us to make ginormous houses? Well, it's been around for 2,500 years. It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together, or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system. And we do something different than what we did in the past; we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that. We use CNC to make scaffolding to train semi-epithetic matter, plants, into a specific geometry that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab. It fits into the environment. It is the environment. It is the landscape, right?
Pra, cila eshte ajo teknologji qe do te na lejoje te bejme shtepi gjigande? Eh mire, ka ekzistuar qe prej 2500 vjetesh. Quhet shartim i pemeve se bashku, ose bashkim i dy sistemeve vaskulare ngjitur, Ne bejme dicka ndryshe nga ajo qe kemi bere me pare. I shtojme nje sasi te vogel inteligjence. Kemi bere llogaritjet per te ndertuar skelen per te detyruar lenden semi-epitetike, bimet ne nje forme gjeometrike specifike. per te krjuar nje shtepi qe e kemi quajtur "Banim Bimor Gjenial". I pershtatet mjedisit. Eshte mjedisi. Eshte peisazhi, apo jo?
And you can have a hundred million of these homes, and it's great because they suck carbon. They're perfect. You can have 100 million families, or take things out of the suburbs, because these are homes that are a part of the environment. Imagine pre-growing a village -- it takes about seven to 10 years -- and everything is green.
Dhe mund te prodhohen njeqind milione nga keto shtepi. dhe eshte mire, sepse thithin gazin karbonik. Jane perfekte. Mund te strehosh 100 milion familje ose te pastrosh periferite e qytetit, sepse keto shtepi jane pjese e mjedisit natyral. Imagjino te fillosh te rrisesh nje fshat -- duhen 7 deri ne 10 vjet -- dhe gjithcka eshte gjelber.
So not only do we do the veggie house, we also do the in-vitro meat habitat, or homes that we're doing research on now in Brooklyn, where, as an architecture office, we're for the first of its kind to put in a molecular cell biology lab and start experimenting with regenerative medicine and tissue engineering and start thinking about what the future would be if architecture and biology became one.
Nuk bejme vetem shtepi bimore, po ashtu dhe banime me baze mishi ne laborator, ose rastet qe po studiojme per momentin, ne studion e arkitektures ne Brooklyn, dhe jemi te paret qe kemi instaluar nje laborator te biologjise molekulare per te bere kerkime ne fushen e mjekesise rigjeneruese dhe inxhinierse se fibrave dhe filluam te mendojme se cila do te ishte e ardhmja nese arkitektura dhe biologjia behen nje.
So we've been doing this for a couple of years, and that's our lab. And what we do is we grow extracellular matrix from pigs. We use a modified inkjet printer, and we print geometry. We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects like, you know, shoes, leather belts, handbags, etc., where no sentient creature is harmed. It's victimless. It's meat from a test tube. So our theory is that eventually we should be doing this with homes.
Kemi dy vjet qe po bejme kete, ja laboratori yne. Dhe ajo qe bejme eshte qe ne rrisim inde ekstracelulare nga derrat. Perdorim nje printer te modifkuar. dhe printojme forma gjeometrike. Ne printojme forma gjeometrike e mund te bejme objekte te dizajnit industrial si, kepuce, rripa lekure, canta, etj., ku gjerat e gjalla nuk jane demtuar. S'ka viktima. Eshte mish ne epruvete. Teoria jone eshte qe me ne fund duhet te jemi ne gjendje te bejme te njejten gje edhe me shtepite.
So here is a typical stud wall, an architectural construction, and this is a section of our proposal for a meat house, where you can see we use fatty cells as insulation, cilia for dealing with wind loads and sphincter muscles for the doors and windows.
Pra ky eshte nje mur tipik, nje konstruksion arkitektonik, dhe ky eshte nje seksion i propozimit per shtepine prej mishi, ku ju shihni qe kemi perdorur qelizat dhjamore si izolues, qerpiket per te perballuar eren dhe muskujt unazore per dyert dhe dritaret.
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And we know it's incredibly ugly. It could have been an English Tudor or Spanish Colonial, but we kind of chose this shape. And there it is kind of grown, at least one particular section of it.
Dhe e dime qe eshte shume e shemtuar. Mund te ishte nje stil Tudor Anglez apo stil Spanjoll Kolonial, por e zgjodhem vete kete forme. Dhe eshte rritur, te pakten nje pjese e vecante e saj.
We had a big show in Prague, and we decided to put it in front of the cathedral so religion can confront the house of meat. That's why we grow homes. Thanks very much.
Kemi bere nje ekspozite te madhe ne Prage, dhe vendosem ta veme perpara katedrales ne menyre qe feja te takohej me shtepine prej mishi. Ja pse i rrisim shtepite. Faleminderit te gjitheve.
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