Siamak Hariri: How do you build a sacred space?
シアマク・ハリリ: 神聖な空間を建築するには
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that I studied at some 30 years ago
イェール大学の建築大学院は偶然にも
from the wonderful art gallery
向いにありました
architect Louis Kahn.
and I used to visit it quite often.
しょっちゅう訪れていました
手で撫でているのを見ました
across the concrete wall.
was moved by the building
人を感動させる力があることを
そして こう考えたのを憶えています
人を感動させられるのだろうか?」
a reaction of the heart.
感情の反応を求めます
the emotional response.
南アメリカのバハイ教寺院の
an open call for designs
最初のバハイ教寺院で
in all of South America.
とても重要な道標でした
for the Bahá'í community,
of the continental temples
最後のもので
for national and local temples to be built
独特のものでした
九つの入口 九つの参道
nine entrances, nine paths,
人が寺院に入れるようにします
from all directions,
in the Bahá'í faith.
その風潮とは全く反対のことを
あるいは 無宗教の人を
walks of life, backgrounds,
churches for Christianity
設計するのと似ています
どのように設計するのでしょうか?
what's sacred today?
定義するのでしょうか?
from the Bahá'í writings,
美しい一文に出会いました
ここまでで十分興味深いのですが―
which is already very interesting --
will become ashine.
良いアイデアを見出しました
of the inner and the outer,
and you say, "That person is radiant."
「あの人は輝いている」と言う感じです
how could we make something
何かを建築することができるのだろう
建てることができるのだろうか
it becomes alive.
生命が宿るように」
a single form of emanation
卵のようなものばかりでした
was looking too much like an egg.
letting the process take you,
短いビデオを偶然見て
of a plant moving in light,
考えるきっかけになりました
私たちの寺院に手を伸ばすという動きを
could have reach,
お分かりいただけるでしょう
could mean movement and stillness,
このように書かれています
完全性を有しなければならない
as is humanly possible,
well, what is perfection?
of this Japanese basket
偶然見つけました
of perfection need to be challenged,
問い直さなくてはならないと気づきました
of this basket, this wonkiness,
of what you might imagine a shoulder
モデルを制作しました
folding but torquing --
思い浮かべて下さい
and the way it was reaching.
an interesting form,
were received from 80 countries,
どのようにこれを建築するか
of how to build it.
使うとしていましたが
many experiments with materials,
得られるかを考えました
this kind of shimmer,
とても強い素材です
as you know, is very strong,
just so and melt them
2年間かかりました
about two years to make.
性質を持っていました
柔らかい光を必要としていました
something with a soft light,
内側では手に触れます
but on the inside you touch it.
小さな岩脈を見つけました
in a huge quarry in Portugal
使われずにとっておかれました
for seven generations in his family,
正にこのプロジェクトのためにです
if you can believe it.
半透明になります
it has that translucent quality.
象徴としての強さも表しています
それぞれ形が異なり
all individual shapes,
この超構造物の
組み立てられました
with aerospace technology,
全機械化ラインで加工された
チーム作業です
3パーセントの誤差に収まりました
of our $30 million budget
to that beautiful quote,
相応しい答になっているといいのですが
of mysterious ways.
応募をした14年前には
14 years ago when we made the submission,
背景にしていたのですが
set against the Andes.
土地が見つかりませんでした
寺院が建つことになったのです
where we ended up,
nothing but pure nature,
正に市街を眼下に見渡すことができます
nothing but the city below you,
行われました
絶え間なく続きました
先住民族の人々が訪れました
from all over South America,
今まで村を離れたことがない人たちもいました
belongs to people,
and walks of life,
中にいる時にどのように感じるかです
is what it feels like on the inside;
ふるまってくれる人がいるなら
as that security guard,
彼らのものとなるでしょう
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Siamak Hariri - ArchitectSiamak Hariri holds deep respect for the transformative potential of architecture, specializing in creating works of enduring value.
Why you should listen
Siamak Hariri is a founding Partner of Hariri Pontarini Architects, a 120 person practice based in Toronto. His portfolio of nationally and internationally recognized buildings has won over 60 awards, including the Governor General’s Medal in Architecture, celebrated as one of Canada’s Artists who mattered most by the Globe and Mail and with his Partner David Pontarini, the 2013 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Architectural Firm Award.
One of Hariri's earliest HPA projects, the Canadian headquarters of McKinsey & Company, is the youngest building to receive City of Toronto heritage landmark designation. He has recently completed public and private projects include the award-winning Richard Ivey Building, Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University, the Jackman Law Building for the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, the Schulich School of Business at York University and the Integrated Health Sciences campus, with the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy and the McMaster University Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine in downtown Kitchener.
In the fall of 2016, Hariri completed a project he began in 2003, the Bahá’í Temple of South American, located in Santiago, Chile, the last of the Bahá’í continental temples. Won through an international call and a rigorous design competition (185 entries from 80 countries) the temple is poised to become an architectural landmark at the foothill of the Andes. It has already won some of the top architecture awards including the RAIC Innovation Award, the World Architecture News Best Building of the Year (selected by ninety-seven judges around the world); Architect Magazine’s Progressive Architecture Award (architecture’s top unbuilt projects award); the Canadian Architect’s Award of Excellence; the International Property Awards and was profiled by National Geographic Magazine.
Hariri is currently working on the complex Princess Margaret Space Transformation Project and has recently won two international design competitions, the first, the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, and the second, selected from over 92 international architects, for the new Tom Patterson Theatre, poised to become the heart of the Stratford Festival.
Born in Bonn, Germany, Hariri was educated at the University of Waterloo and Yale University where he completed a Master of Architecture. He has taught at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, as well as been a lecturer and guest critic for numerous organizations across North America. Hariri was recently awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Architecture from Ryerson University for his contribution to architecture in Canada and abroad. The University of Toronto also honored him with an Arbor Award for his contribution to the University experience as a lecturer and adjunct professor. Hariri lives in Toronto with his artist wife, Sasha Rogers and their three children; Lua, Yasmin and David.
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