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Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!
Mitchell Joachim: No construya su casa, ¡hágala crecer!
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El TED Fellow y diseñador urbano Mitchell Joachim presenta su visión de la arquitectura sostenible, ecológica: residencias ecológicas obtenidas de las plantas y... ¡atención! carne.
Mitchell Joachim - Architect, designer
Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day's work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim. Full bio
Soft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day's work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim. Full bio
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Why grow homes? Because we can.
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¿Por qué cultivar hogares? Porque podemos.
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Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma.
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En este momento, EE.UU. está en un estado constante de trauma.
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And there's a cause for that, all right.
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Y hay un motivo para eso, muy bien.
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We've got McPeople, McCars, McHouses.
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Tenemos McGente, McAutos, McCasas.
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As an architect, I have to confront something like this.
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Como arquitecto, tengo que enfrentar algo así.
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So what's a technology that will allow us
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Entonces, ¿qué tecnología nos permitirá
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to make ginormous houses?
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hacer casas enormes?
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Well, it's been around for 2,500 years.
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Bueno, ha estado rondando durante 2.500 años.
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It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together,
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Es el «pleaching», o injertar árboles entre sí
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or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system.
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o injertar materia por anastomosis en un sistema vascular continuo.
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And we do something different
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Y hacemos algo diferente
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than what we did in the past;
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de lo que hicimos en el pasado.
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we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that.
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Le agregamos un mínimo de inteligencia a eso.
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We use CNC to make scaffolding
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Usamos CNC para el andamiaje
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to train semi-epithetic matter, plants,
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para amoldar la materia semi-epitética, las pantas,
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into a specific geometry
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en una geometría específica
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that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab.
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que conforme un hogar al que llamamos Fab Tree Hab.
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It fits into the environment. It is the environment.
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Se adapta al medio ambiente. Es el medio ambiente.
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It is the landscape, right?
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Es el paisaje, ¿correcto?
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And you can have a hundred million of these homes,
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Y se puede tener cien millones de estos hogares.
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and it's great because they suck carbon.
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Y es genial porque absorben carbono.
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They're perfect.
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Son perfectas.
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You can have 100 million families, or take things out of the suburbs,
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Se puede tener 100 millones de familias, o sacar cosas de los suburbios,
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because these are homes that are a part of the environment.
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porque se trata de viviendas que son una parte del medio ambiente.
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Imagine pre-growing a village --
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Imaginen pre-cultivar un pueblo;
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it takes about seven to 10 years --
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lleva de 7 a 10 años,
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and everything is green.
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y es todo verde.
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So not only do we do the veggie house,
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No sólo hacemos la casa vegetal
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we also do the in-vitro meat habitat,
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también hacemos el hábitat de la carne artificial
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or homes that we're doing research on now in Brooklyn,
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o viviendas que estamos investigando ahora en Brooklyn
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where, as an architecture office, we're for the first of its kind
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donde, como estudio de arquitectura, fue el primero en su tipo
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to put in a molecular cell biology lab
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en poner un laboratorio de biología molecular
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and start experimenting with regenerative medicine
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y comenzar a experimentar con medicina regenerativa
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and tissue engineering
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e ingeniería de tejidos
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and start thinking about what the future would be
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y comenzar a pensar cómo sería el futuro
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if architecture and biology became one.
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si la arquitectura y la biología fueran una sola cosa.
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So we've been doing this for a couple of years, and that's our lab.
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Así que hemos estado haciendo esto por un par de años, y ese es nuestro laboratorio.
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And what we do is we grow
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Y lo que hacemos es cultivar
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extracellular matrix from pigs.
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matriz extracelular de cerdos.
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We use a modified inkjet printer,
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Usamos una impresora de inyección de tinta modificada.
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and we print geometry.
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E imprimimos geometría.
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We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects
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Imprimimos geometría donde podemos hacer diseño industrial
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like, you know, shoes, leather belts,
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como, ya saben, zapatos, cinturones de cuero,
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handbags, etc.,
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bolsos de mano, etc.,
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where no sentient creature is harmed.
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donde no hay criaturas sensibles perjudicadas.
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It's victimless. It's meat from a test tube.
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Es sin víctimas. Es carne de tubo de ensayo.
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So our theory is that eventually
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Por eso nuestra teoría es que con el tiempo
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we should be doing this with homes.
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deberíamos estar haciendo esto con las viviendas.
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So here is a typical stud wall,
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He aquí un típico muro de carga
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an architectural construction,
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y la construcción arquitectónica.
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and this is a section
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Y esta es una sección
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of our proposal for a meat house,
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de nuestra propuesta para una casa de carne
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where you can see we use fatty cells as insulation,
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donde se puede ver que utilizamos células grasas como aislamiento,
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cilia for dealing with wind loads
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cilios para tratar las cargas de viento
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and sphincter muscles for the doors and windows.
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y músculos del esfínter para puertas y ventanas.
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(Laughter)
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(Risas)
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And we know it's incredibly ugly.
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Y sabemos que es muy feo.
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It could have been an English Tudor or Spanish Colonial,
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Podría haber sido un tudor inglés o un colonial español,
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but we kind of chose this shape.
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pero como que elegimos esta forma.
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And there it is kind of grown, at least one particular section of it.
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Y allí hay una especie de cultivo, al menos una sección particular del mismo.
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We had a big show in Prague,
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Tuvimos un gran espectáculo en Praga.
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and we decided to put it in front of the cathedral
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Y decidimos ponerlo delante de la catedral
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so religion can confront the house of meat.
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para que la religión pudiera confrontar la casa de carne.
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That's why we grow homes. Thanks very much.
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Por eso cultivamos casas. Muchas gracias.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mitchell Joachim - Architect, designerSoft cars, jet packs and houses made of meat are all in a day's work for urban designer, architect and TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim.
Why you should listen
Mitchell Joachim is a leader in ecological design and urbanism. He is a co-founder of Terreform ONE and Terrefuge, and is on the faculty at Columbia University and Parsons. Formerly he was an architect at Gehry Partners and Pei Cobb Freed, and he has been awarded the Moshe Safdie Research Fellowship.
Joachim won the History Channel and Infiniti Design Excellence Award for the City of the Future, and Time Magazine's "Best Invention of the Year 2007" for his Compacted Car with MIT's Smart Cities. His project, Fab Tree Hab, has been exhibited at MoMA and widely published. He was chosen by Wired for "The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen To."
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