Rahul Mehrotra: The architectural wonder of impermanent cities
Rahul Mehrotra: Arhitekturno čudo privremenih gradova
Rahul Mehrotra is an architect working in India who focuses on institutional buildings and conservation of historic places. He is also a professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Full bio
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that are larger than five million people.
the story of one such city,
o jednom takvom gradu,
an ephemeral megacity.
prolazni megagrad.
for a Hindu religious festival
za hinduističku vjersku svečanost
in smaller editions every four years,
u manjem izdanju svake 4 godine.
the Yamuna rivers in India.
ljudi sastaje ovdje jest
that during the festival,
da, tijekom svečanosti,
of these two great rivers
ovih dviju velikih rijeka,
is built to house them.
da bi ih se smjestilo.
live there for the 55 days,
tijekom tih 55 dana,
begin to recede
pješčane obale,
to 15th of January,
milijuna stanovnika.
of a real megacity:
pravoga megagrada:
or if the river changes course,
ili ako rijeka izmijeni svoj tok,
which can be volatile.
koji može biti promjenjiv.
as well as social, infrastructure.
fizičke ali i socijalne infrastrukture.
električna energija,
that are used for security
koje se koriste u sigurnosne svrhe
koju se također organizira.
like any real megacity would do.
baš poput svakog megagrada.
are employed by the city.
a Mela Adhikari,
all works efficiently.
sve radi besprijekorno.
and the most efficient Indian city
najučinkovitiji indijski grad
in comparison to Manhattan,
usporedbi s Manhattanom,
or a pop-up city.
this is a state enterprise,
ovo je državni projekt,
of neoliberalism and capitalism,
neoliberalizma i kapitalizma,
complete responsibility
potpunu odgovornost
intentional city, a formal city.
on the ground very lightly.
that are used to build this settlement
kako bi se sagradilo ovo naselje
a fabric or plastic.
tkanina ili plastika.
come together and aggregate.
from a small tent,
five or six people, or a family,
sometimes 1,000 people.
katkad i 1000 osoba.
and this imagination of the city,
of the festival, within a week,
za tjedan dana,
is offered back to the river,
the water swells again.
as a kit of parts
u vidu kutije s dijelovima
go to little villages in the hinterland,
odlaze u sela u zaleđu,
are used in small towns,
se iskoriste u gradićima,
these Hindu beliefs or not.
hinduistička vjerovanja.
amount of energy and imagination
količinu energije i imaginacije,
the ground lightly,
na nježan način,
obsessed with permanence.
opsjednuti trajnošću.
the only constant in our lives.
stalnost u našim životima.
naš planet.
from these sorts of settlements?
ovakvih vrsta naselja?
koja je naravno puno manja,
for transaction,
this one in Mexico,
Africi, ova u Meksiku,
on the weekends, about 50,000 vendors,
nađe se oko 50 tisuća izlagača,
creates new chemistries,
stvara se nova kemija,
like parking lots, for example.
koristi, poput parkirališta.
as an architect and a planner,
u svakodnevnom krajoliku.
it's not static.
nije statičan.
of temporary settlements.
izbjegličkih kampova,
the favelas of Latin America.
favela u Latinskoj Americi.
is becoming the new permanent.
u novo trajno.
nikakva velika vizija,
during the Ganesh festival,
tijekom svečanosti Ganesh,
nastane za 10 dana.
for dinners and celebration.
večerama i slavljima.
and plaster of Paris.
we call them maidans.
nazivamo ih maidani.
incredibly nuanced and complicated,
nijansiranu i zamršenu
the cricket pitch --
netaknut, to je sveto tlo.
is not touched, it's sacred ground.
and the wedding party
putem zajedničke kuhinje.
about these questions,
for temporary problems?
will be relevant in a decade?
išta značiti za deset godina?
that arises from this research.
iz ovog istraživanja.
shopping malls in North America,
trgovačke centre u Sjevernoj Americi,
that in the next decade,
da će u sljedećih 10 godina,
capturing resources,
zarobljenost resursa,
with massive resources,
s ogromnim resursima,
get absorbed into the city.
nomadic structures, deflatable,
strukture, rastavljive,
around the world or in those countries,
širom svijeta ili u istoj zemlji,
for the next Olympics?
za sljedeće Olimpijske igre?
like the circus,
zamisliti kao cirkus,
that used to camp in cities,
koja se naseljavala u gradovima,
with the static city.
dijaloga s nepokretnim gradom.
become suddenly aware of each other,
odjednom postanu svjesna jedni drugih.
postaju svjesni jedni drugih,
of the ring with animals and performers.
kruga sa životinjama i izvođačima.
people become aware of things,
ljudi postaju svjesni nekih stvari,
climate change,
klimatskim promjenama,
can we be more accommodating?
više otvoriti prema tim problemima?
gradske sustave?
nature continuously
unsuccessfully?
our cities like a circus,
must be completely temporary.
moraju biti potpuno privremeni.
in our imagination about cities,
imaginaciji gradova,
our resources efficiently,
koristiti resurse,
trajanja našem planetu.
urban design cultures,
planiranja urbanog dizajna,
it might have on our lives.
moglo imati na naše živote.
my students and I studied,
sa svojim studentima,
where the city had been disassembled.
je grad bivao razgrađivan.
to be covered over by the water,
through our research
studentima tijekom istraživanja
how much we had learned
the efficiency of the city,
o učinkovitosti grada,
that made the city.
koje su sačinjavale grad.
smješila se.
kako bi me blagoslovila.
Majka Ganges
for a few days."
nekoliko dana."
architecture will come and go,
će doći i otići,
minimalan trag.
for us as citizens and architects.
za nas kao građane i arhitekte.
is bigger than permanence
veća od trajnosti
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rahul Mehrotra - Architect, urbanistRahul Mehrotra is an architect working in India who focuses on institutional buildings and conservation of historic places. He is also a professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Why you should listen
Rahul Mehrotra is an architect working from Mumbai and Boston, where he also teaches at Harvard University. His work covers a range of buildings, from houses to institutional to office buildings. A recent project was a housing estate for 100 elephants and their caretakers in Jaipur, India.
Mehrotra is passionate about writing. He's written several books on the history and architecture of Mumbai, including Architecture In India Since 1990. He's also written on urbanism in India and is currently working on a book on his experiences as a practitioner in India.
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