Rahul Mehrotra: The architectural wonder of impermanent cities
胡拉尔 · 麦罗特拉: 临时城市的建筑奇迹
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,
an ephemeral megacity.
是临时搭建的,很短暂,
for a Hindu religious festival
印度教的节日而搭建的,
in smaller editions every four years,
每4年以小一点的规模举行,
the Yamuna rivers in India.
that during the festival,
of these two great rivers
is built to house them.
容纳这些人也随之落成。
live there for the 55 days,
城市尚未开工建设时拍的,
快要成型的时候拍的。
begin to recede
to 15th of January,
到下一年的1月15日,
一整个城市拔地而起。
of a real megacity:
所有该有的特点:
or if the river changes course,
或者河流改道,
which can be volatile.
来暂时适应这种地势。
as well as social, infrastructure.
该有的物理和社会基础设施。
that are used for security
like any real megacity would do.
are employed by the city.
a Mela Adhikari,
一个Mela Adhikari,
all works efficiently.
都能高效运转。
and the most efficient Indian city
in comparison to Manhattan,
or a pop-up city.
也不是一个快闪的城市,
this is a state enterprise,
of neoliberalism and capitalism,
complete responsibility
intentional city, a formal city.
有意打造的,规范有序的。
on the ground very lightly.
that are used to build this settlement
a fabric or plastic.
come together and aggregate.
from a small tent,
five or six people, or a family,
sometimes 1,000 people.
甚至上千人的庙宇。
and this imagination of the city,
这个城市的设想,
of the festival, within a week,
is offered back to the river,
the water swells again.
as a kit of parts
go to little villages in the hinterland,
are used in small towns,
these Hindu beliefs or not.
amount of energy and imagination
巨大的力量与想象力,
the ground lightly,
尽可能靠近地表打造建筑,
obsessed with permanence.
the only constant in our lives.
也就是我们的星球。
from these sorts of settlements?
能学到什么呢?
for transaction,
this one in Mexico,
图中这个在墨西哥,
on the weekends, about 50,000 vendors,
可以容纳5万个摊位,
creates new chemistries,
催化出了新的化学反应,
like parking lots, for example.
未被充分利用的地方,如停车场。
as an architect and a planner,
it's not static.
有机体,并不是静态的,
of temporary settlements.
the favelas of Latin America.
is becoming the new permanent.
一种新的永恒。
during the Ganesh festival,
for dinners and celebration.
and plaster of Paris.
we call them maidans.
开放空间,被称为广场,
incredibly nuanced and complicated,
板球是一种非常微妙又复杂的,
the cricket pitch --
is not touched, it's sacred ground.
那可是神圣的领域。
and the wedding party
about these questions,
for temporary problems?
will be relevant in a decade?
that arises from this research.
shopping malls in North America,
that in the next decade,
capturing resources,
with massive resources,
get absorbed into the city.
nomadic structures, deflatable,
可移动的、可收缩的建筑,
around the world or in those countries,
或世界上其他更小的城镇,
for the next Olympics?
like the circus,
that used to camp in cities,
with the static city.
美好的视觉对话,
become suddenly aware of each other,
突然发现对方的存在,
不同民族的人们
of the ring with animals and performers.
令人惊叹的马戏场周围。
people become aware of things,
climate change,
can we be more accommodating?
我们可否变得更适应变化?
nature continuously
沿用那些刻板的基础建设,
unsuccessfully?
our cities like a circus,
must be completely temporary.
城市都应该全变成临时的。
in our imagination about cities,
our resources efficiently,
有效地利用资源,
urban design cultures,
it might have on our lives.
可能影响我们的生活。
my students and I studied,
我在那里做研究,
where the city had been disassembled.
to be covered over by the water,
through our research
我和学生的研究,
how much we had learned
the efficiency of the city,
还有城市的运转效率,
that made the city.
for a few days."
这是对你们的眷顾。”
architecture will come and go,
建筑都要经历生死轮回,
for us as citizens and architects.
的大众来说是很重要的一课。
is bigger than permanence
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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