Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal
مايكل ميرفي: الهندسة المعمارية: نبني لنشفي
As co-founder and CEO of MASS Design Group, Michael Murphy envisions and creates community-centric structures with healing built into their core. Full bio
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as I can remember,
كما تسعفني ذاكرتي
of a house that we lived in.
للتنفيس عما بداخله
scraping paint with this old heat gun
بمسدس التسخين
where he scraped,
ما قد كشط
السنة التي تليها
painting and repainting:
وصبغ الجدار بالدهان مرة تلو الأخرى
is never meant to be done.
يكتمل أبداً
I got a phone call.
جائني اتصال
a lump in his stomach --
only three weeks to live.
ليعيشها
to Poughkeepsie, New York,
would bring us.
what he could now no longer complete --
إكماله الآن،
للمنزل وأعدنا صبغه
were refinished,
النوافذ القديمة
admiring a day's work,
معجباً بما عملناه
أنه كان مريضاً بالسرطان
to go to architecture school.
كلية الهندسة
something different about buildings.
عن البنيان
novel and sculptural forms,
is supposed to be a snail.
the greatest architecture --
المهندسين العظماء ...
and innovative --
ومبتكرة
what more could we do?
ما الذي نستطيع فعله أكثر من مجرد ذلك؟
my final exams,
from an all-nighter
الليل للمذاكرة
for the global poor.
talking about architecture.
يتحدث عن الهندسة المعمارية
people sicker, he said,
with, say, a broken leg,
strand of tuberculosis.
الأدوية لمقاومة مرض السُلَ
had not been thought about,
التي تساعد على مقاومة الأمراض المعدية
hospitals that allow us to heal?
تسمح لنا بمعالجتهم؟
with a few classmates,
لاند روفر مع عدداً من زملائي
hillside of Rwanda.
بها دولة رواندا.
in this old guesthouse,
بيت الضيافة القديم هذا
a new type of hospital
جديداً من المستشفيات
تزيد المرضى مرضاً
that flips the hallways on the outside,
تطل على المناظر الخارجية
لا تعمل إلا نادراً،
that could breathe
its environmental footprint?
المكيفات الهوائية على البيئة؟
that a simple view of nature
had a window with a view?
على الطبيعة الخلابة؟
can make a hospital that heals.
ذاته يمكنها خلق مستشفى يعالج المرضى.
is quite another.
هو أمر آخر تقريباً
construction differently
this enormous hilltop
and hard to get to site,
المجيء بها إلى الموقع
تدعى ب"أوبديهي"
for the community."
with shovels and hoes,
مجارفهم ومعاولهم.
the cost of that bulldozer.
بما ستكلفه وتستغرقه الجرافة
Bruce started a guild,
master carpenters to train others
labor from all backgrounds,
من مختلف الخلفيات،
the process of building to heal,
البناء من أجل الشفاء،
way of building, or "lo-fab,"
الإبداعية للبناء، أو "لو-فاب"
as an opportunity
of the places where you serve.
في بنائها
that this way of building
and evaluate architecture.
ونعرف قيمة البناء.
can be designed to impact people's lives.
يمكن تصميمها لتؤثر على حياة الناس
a local volcanic stone
حجارة بركان محلي
a nuisance by farmers,
to cut these stones
of the hospital.
these stones together,
the original wall and rebuild it.
وبناءه مرة أخرى
that hands cut these stones,
التي شكلت تلك الحجارة
with rocks from this soil.
من حجارة من هذه التربة.
and you look at your built world,
وتتأمل البنيان من حولك
an important question --
وهو سؤال مهم -- لكن
of those who made it?"
اولئك الذين صنعوه؟"
based around these questions,
هذه الاسئلة،
could help end the epidemic of cholera.
يمكنه أن ينهي وباء الكوليرا
before it enters the water table,
تدخل الأرض وتختلط بالمياة الجوفية
جيسكيو
could radically reduce
يمكن أن يقلل جذرياً
of maternal and infant death
مرتفع للحوامل وأطفالهن
to be replicated nationally,
للتكاثر الوطني
and their attendants
and therefore have safer births.
يخضعن لتوليد آمن.
could also be used
أيضاً استخدامه
معرّضتهم للمخاطر
وصيد الطرائد
disease transfer and war.
places in the world,
الوصول إليها في العالم،
and the wood around us
والأخشاب التي حولنا
and conserve our rich biodiversity.
المختلفة عن بعضها البعض والمحافظة عليها.
and hard of hearing in the world.
of visual communication.
that would awaken the ways
وتفتح لنا طرقاً
industrial infrastructure.
and design to revitalize this city
والتصميم لاحياء المدينة
across our nation,
for innovation and growth?
الإبتكار والتنمية؟
we asked a simple question:
أكثر من ذلك؟
how we could create jobs,
كيف يمكننا طرح الوظائف،
in the dignity of the communities
a transformative engine for change.
محركات محولة للتغير.
civil rights leader
of African Americans
الصادرة بحق الأمريكيين الأفارقة
where these lynchings occurred,
حصلت فيها هذه الإعدامات
to the victims of lynching
هذه الإعدامات
النصب التذكارية
of their past,
in the United States.
to info@equaljusticeintiative.org:
nfo@equaljusticeintiative.org:
project we could do in America
we think about racial injustice.
حول الظلم العرقي.
with his team and talk to them.
I canceled all my meetings
أنني ألغيت كل اجتماعاتي
to Montgomery, Alabama.
ألاباما.
and we walked around the city.
أن العديد من المعالم
been placed all over the city
في أنحاء مختلفة من المدينة
the history of slavery.
and the train tracks
حيث كان الميناء
slave-trading port in America
لتجارة العبيد في أمريكا
had stood on its steps
a new memorial
قال:"هنا سنبني نصباً تذكارياً جديداً
of this city and of this nation."
together over the last year
almost familiar building type,
ومألوف إلى حد ما
or the colonnade at the Vatican.
and our perception shifts,
evoke the lynchings,
التي حصلت من دون محاكمات
on the markers that hang above us.
of identical columns.
من الأعمدة المتشابهة
waiting in purgatory,
تطهير أرواحها،
where these lynchings occurred.
التي حصلت فيها الإعدامات.
from over a century of silence.
الذي استغرق أكثر من قرن.
how it should be built,
we learned about in Rwanda.
those very columns
ملء جميع تلك الأعمدة
of where these killings occurred.
collecting that soil
leaders and descendants.
والأحفاد.
from where Will McBride was lynched,
ويل مكبرايد
would be at peace."
on this memorial later this year,
التذكاري لاحقاً في هذه السنة،
of the unspeakable acts
التي لا يتحدث عنها
that day that this house --
هذا المنزل
to a much deeper relationship
expressive sculptures.
and our collective aspirations
ويشفيك.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Murphy - DesignerAs co-founder and CEO of MASS Design Group, Michael Murphy envisions and creates community-centric structures with healing built into their core.
Why you should listen
Michael Murphy is the executive director of MASS Design Group. He spearheads MASS' research and design programs and has helped expand the firm into ten countries and three continents.
Murphy led the design and construction of MASS's first project, the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, which opened in 2011. The award-winning hospital established the MASS blueprint: immersive study of each location for its challenges and advantages, design of buildings that will improve the well-being of patients and communities, low-impact and environmentally sensitive construction that enriches the community, and evaluation of each design’s impact in improving lives.
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