Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal
迈克 墨菲: 用建筑来获得疗愈
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,
of a house that we lived in.
scraping paint with this old heat gun
用他的热风枪
where he scraped,
painting and repainting:
油漆和再次油漆
is never meant to be done.
I got a phone call.
我接到一通电话
a lump in his stomach --
only three weeks to live.
to Poughkeepsie, New York,
would bring us.
what he could now no longer complete --
were refinished,
admiring a day's work,
欣赏着一天的工作
to go to architecture school.
something different about buildings.
关于楼房的很多不同的东西
novel and sculptural forms,
is supposed to be a snail.
the greatest architecture --
最伟大的建筑
and innovative --
what more could we do?
我们还能做些什么呢?
my final exams,
from an all-nighter
for the global poor.
为了全球的贫困而努力
talking about architecture.
people sicker, he said,
with, say, a broken leg,
strand of tuberculosis.
had not been thought about,
那些可以让人痊愈的医院
hospitals that allow us to heal?
with a few classmates,
hillside of Rwanda.
in this old guesthouse,
这所老客房内
a new type of hospital
that flips the hallways on the outside,
把大厅向露天敞开
that could breathe
its environmental footprint?
that a simple view of nature
had a window with a view?
can make a hospital that heals.
is quite another.
construction differently
this enormous hilltop
and hard to get to site,
for the community."
with shovels and hoes,
the cost of that bulldozer.
Bruce started a guild,
master carpenters to train others
labor from all backgrounds,
the process of building to heal,
way of building, or "lo-fab,"
当地人赤手空拳的建筑
它有四根立柱
as an opportunity
of the places where you serve.
that this way of building
and evaluate architecture.
can be designed to impact people's lives.
也能对人们的生活产生影响
a local volcanic stone
a nuisance by farmers,
to cut these stones
of the hospital.
these stones together,
the original wall and rebuild it.
重新建立一个
that hands cut these stones,
with rocks from this soil.
and you look at your built world,
看看你建造的这个世界
an important question --
“什么是环境的足迹“
of those who made it?"
based around these questions,
could help end the epidemic of cholera.
是否会给霍乱的流行划上句号
before it enters the water table,
在它进入水源之前
could radically reduce
of maternal and infant death
to be replicated nationally,
and their attendants
and therefore have safer births.
因此而有着较为安全的分娩
could also be used
disease transfer and war.
places in the world,
and the wood around us
and conserve our rich biodiversity.
保留我们丰富的生物多样性的方法
and hard of hearing in the world.
of visual communication.
that would awaken the ways
industrial infrastructure.
and design to revitalize this city
across our nation,
for innovation and growth?
we asked a simple question:
how we could create jobs,
in the dignity of the communities
a transformative engine for change.
civil rights leader
of African Americans
where these lynchings occurred,
to the victims of lynching
of their past,
in the United States.
to info@equaljusticeintiative.org:
info@equaljusticeintiative.org:
project we could do in America
we think about racial injustice.
with his team and talk to them.
I canceled all my meetings
to Montgomery, Alabama.
and we walked around the city.
been placed all over the city
the history of slavery.
and the train tracks
slave-trading port in America
had stood on its steps
a new memorial
of this city and of this nation."
together over the last year
almost familiar building type,
几近熟悉的建筑类型
or the colonnade at the Vatican.
and our perception shifts,
evoke the lynchings,
on the markers that hang above us.
of identical columns.
waiting in purgatory,
where these lynchings occurred.
from over a century of silence.
how it should be built,
we learned about in Rwanda.
those very columns
of where these killings occurred.
collecting that soil
leaders and descendants.
from where Will McBride was lynched,
的泥土搜集过程中记下来的
would be at peace."
on this memorial later this year,
of the unspeakable acts
that day that this house --
to a much deeper relationship
expressive sculptures.
and our collective aspirations
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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