Name: 【TED】Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! (Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!)
Uploaded: 2017-08-05T14:39:14.000Z
Duration: 5 min 29 s
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Right now, America is in an unremitting state of trauma.

As an architect, I have to confront something like this.

So what's a technology that will allow us

It's called pleaching, or grafting trees together,

or grafting inosculate matter into one contiguous, vascular system.

we add kind of a modicum of intelligence to that.

that makes a home that we call a Fab Tree Hab.

It fits into the environment. It is the environment.

And you can have a hundred million of these homes,

You can have 100 million families, or take things out of the suburbs,

because these are homes that are a part of the environment.

or homes that we're doing research on now in Brooklyn,

where, as an architecture office, we're for the first of its kind

and start experimenting with regenerative medicine

and start thinking about what the future would be

So we've been doing this for a couple of years, and that's our lab.

We print geometry where we can make industrial design objects

It's victimless. It's meat from a test tube.

where you can see we use fatty cells as insulation,

and sphincter muscles for the doors and windows.

It could have been an English Tudor or Spanish Colonial,

And there it is kind of grown, at least one particular section of it.

and we decided to put it in front of the cathedral

so religion can confront the house of meat.

That's why we grow homes. Thanks very much.

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【TED】Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! (Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it!)

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