SDcamps•演辩营全国英语演讲与辩论赛
Throughout my career, I've been fortunate enough to work with many of the great international architects, 在我的职业生涯里，我非常幸运的和很多着名的国际建筑师一起工作过， documenting their work and observing how their designs have the capacity to influence the cities in which they sit. 整理他们的工作，并观察他们的设计是如何有能力去影响其所在的城市。 I think of new cities...
When I asked people why they were digging their houses from the ground, 当我问人们为什么要地上往下挖洞建房子时， they simply replied that they are poor wheat and apple farmers who didn't have the money to buy materials, and this digging out was their most logical form of living. 他们只是很简单的告诉我，他们是种小麦和苹果的穷农民，没钱买材料，而这种挖窑洞是他们最符合逻辑...
When a new inhabitant moves into the tower, 当一个新的居住者搬进这座大楼， they already have a roof over their head, 他们已经有一个可以遮盖的房顶， so they just typically mark their space with a few curtains or sheets. 所以他们通常只是使用很小的窗帘和单子来突出他们的地方。 Slowly, from found materials, walls rise, 慢慢地，从现成的材料，高墙， and people create a space out of...
While it may appear to be a completely chaotic place, 虽然它看上去好像是一个很混乱的地方， when you see it from above, there seems to be a whole grid of waterways and canals connecting each and every home. 但当你从上往下看，那里好像存在一个由水路和运河形成的格子网连接着每家每户。 From the main dock, people board long wooden canoes which carry them out to their various homes ...
There's only one little entrance to the entire building, 整座大楼只有一个小小的入口， and the 3,000 residents come in and out through that single door. 3000居民从这里通过这一个门进出。 Together, the inhabitants created public spaces and designed them to feel more like a home and less like an unfinished tower. 居住者合力建立了公共空间 并设计德使这里多一点家的感觉少一点烂...
But then in the apartment across the hall from this cow shed lives a newly married couple in what locals describe as one of the nicest apartments in the area. 不过从这个牛棚穿过楼道的这个公寓住着一对新婚的夫妻，这里被当地人形容为当地最好的一座公寓之一。 The attention to this detail astonished me, 公寓里对细节的注意使我震惊， and as the owner of the home so proudly led me aro...
Like Makoko and the Torre David, 像马卡卡和托雷大卫一样， throughout the Zabbaleen you'll find all the same facilities as in any typical neighborhood. 通过扎巴林你可以发现在任何典型的社区里都完全一样的设施。 There are the retail shops, the cafes and the restaurants, and the community is this community of Coptic Christians, 那里有零售店，咖啡厅和餐厅，并且这个社区是一个埃...
Over the past seven years, I've been following my fascination with the built environment, 在过去的七年里，我一直在追随着我对建筑环境的兴趣， and for those of you who know me, you would say that this obsession has led me to live out of a suitcase 365 days a year. 并且对你们当中了解我的人，你们会说这种痴迷使我一年365天提着行李生活。 Being constantly on the move means that ...
There is even a photo studio where you see the sort of aspiration with a faraway place, like that hotel in Sweden. 这是甚至有一个照相馆让你看到一种期望去住在真正的大房子里或者和一个遥远的地方产生联系，比如瑞典的旅馆。 On this particular evening, 在这个特别的夜晚， I came across this live band dressed to the T in their coordinating outfits. 我遇到这个穿着舞台表演衣服的现场演...
Today, they live in this area, 今天，他们生活在这片区域， approximately 50,000 to 70,000 people, 大约5万到7万人， who live in this community of self-built multi-story houses where up to three generations live in one structure. 住在自己建的多层房屋的社区里三代同堂。 While these apartments that they built for themselves appear to lack any planning or formal grid, 虽然这些他们...