The architectural wonder of impermanent cities | Rahul Mehrotra

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Every 12 years, a megacity springs up in India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival -- what's built in ten weeks is completely disassembled in one. What can we learn from this fully functioning, temporary settlement? In a visionary talk, urban designer Rahul Mehrotra explores the benefits of building impermanent cities that can travel, adapt or even disappear, leaving the lightest possible footprint on the planet.
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@mach1gtx150
@mach1gtx150 4 жыл бұрын
As an architect, I never once heard any of my professors talk about 'impermanence'. It was usually about making some kind of permanent architectural 'statement'. This should be discussed and embodied in every school of thought, especially architecture. What a fabulous presentation!
@ReeseEForbes
@ReeseEForbes 4 жыл бұрын
Burning Man - purposefully impermanent which disappears without a trace each year.
@P.R_ka_punch
@P.R_ka_punch 4 жыл бұрын
Be the one !
@strictnonconformist7369
@strictnonconformist7369 4 жыл бұрын
Starting in late 2016 I had the formation of an idea for a city built for easy change and optimized for it, and transit, along with effectively 100% green space. The concept involved using materials and geometric relationships as efficiently as feasible, and I'm almost done with my world-building for how it fits together to complete a fictional short story, and I just ran across this video this morning, such great timing. The short story largely revolves around how people's behavior is shaped by the city's design, and how the city's design is shaped by the people in it. I posit that a city is just a structure for facilitating connections: if it's efficient at that, it'll always be vibrant, as long as it can live off the land"s bounty, and if not, it becomes another structural graveyard in most cases. Having seen enough cities in various states of their cycles of existence, those that are too immutable don't survive reality: they're bypassed and abandoned, because they're no longer efficient enough. The thought there'd be a megacity with 7 million people that's so transient and lightweight assembled and disassembled so quickly for a particular purpose, and so orderly, I find absolutely fascinating.
@mr.e695
@mr.e695 4 жыл бұрын
This is a truly amazing sight to behold and you should try to witness this if you have the means to do so. I think that you could probably find a way to connect with locals in your field that work on this to get an inside look. It could be an event that sparks something in you akin to why you started in your field to begin with.
@mach1gtx150
@mach1gtx150 4 жыл бұрын
@@mr.e695 I will, thank you!
@anthonyabeja3151
@anthonyabeja3151 4 жыл бұрын
"Urbanism as an elastic condition" is such a powerful phrase because it reminds us that our congregations as people aren't about the infrastructure but, rather, the people themselves! Awesome :)
@strictnonconformist7369
@strictnonconformist7369 4 жыл бұрын
I'd suggest that cities are an artifact for making connections between people more efficient, when done right. As discussed in this presentation, the temporal nature is just one attribute, but in this presentation, it's shown that permanence isn't necessarily an optimal attribute of a city.
@GreenMM_11
@GreenMM_11 4 жыл бұрын
What this could mean for Olympic stadiums, MAJOR 👏👏👏
@jeganpalanichamy2576
@jeganpalanichamy2576 4 жыл бұрын
Not only temporary problems, but the ever changing scenario.. life style needs such futuristic orientation and thinking... Thanks prof.rahul Mehrotra for such a wonderful presentation.
@xswakx
@xswakx 4 жыл бұрын
I am very fascinated with abandoned buildings and I have thought of this many times. Why is everything so permanent? People change all the time.
@GivenFactNotFiction
@GivenFactNotFiction 4 жыл бұрын
This would be good for natural disasters, concerts, and dire situation possibly.
@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998
@zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 4 жыл бұрын
I recall an extremely minor earthquake 13 years ago. Yeah, that's about it, my country isn't exactly a hotspot for natural disasters and yeah it's probably more expensive to sustain temporary constructions. The cost of existing would increase
@TheTwick
@TheTwick 4 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful speaker! Thank you for blessing us, we TED listeners!
@Runeforged
@Runeforged 4 жыл бұрын
This was beautiful and fascinating. I’d love to have a drink with him just to hear him talk some more.
@auberjean6873
@auberjean6873 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Rahul, for sharing your experience and perspective with this talk. It made me think differently and echoed in my mind for a long time. It's also amazing what can be achieved when a large group of people have a common goal, and, from what I hear, how egos get marvelously packed away. We need more of that here.
@AvailableUsernameTed
@AvailableUsernameTed 4 жыл бұрын
Impermanence satisfies a nomadic itch that, I think most people have.
@troa_misty
@troa_misty 4 жыл бұрын
Holy crap. Are there any documentary of this tradition? Architectural and engineering perspective? I wanna read! I wanna watch.
@padhiyogi6663
@padhiyogi6663 4 жыл бұрын
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@divyamurugesan5557
@divyamurugesan5557 4 жыл бұрын
A different version of Approach to Kumbhmela. 👍 And yeah Touch it lightly is a great message. 😊
@padhiyogi6663
@padhiyogi6663 4 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKpyhaaCvamqg2w.html
@jusonn9922
@jusonn9922 4 жыл бұрын
How does the sewage system work?
@pinktoes3875
@pinktoes3875 4 жыл бұрын
locate street, pull pants down, execute bowel movement.
@WWZenaDo
@WWZenaDo 4 жыл бұрын
*WHAT* "sewage system" ? I guess the river is their sewage system.
@jusonn9922
@jusonn9922 4 жыл бұрын
@@WWZenaDo *inspiring* hindu culture
@deepankarroy774
@deepankarroy774 4 жыл бұрын
@@nabanildas5819 stop it they just want to be ignorent
@MrChet407
@MrChet407 4 жыл бұрын
It goes into your mouth
@californiaenglish3252
@californiaenglish3252 4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating!
@ceciliaspears161
@ceciliaspears161 4 жыл бұрын
Good point! I enjoyed this talk!
@ridwanarifinarchitect
@ridwanarifinarchitect 3 жыл бұрын
What a new good perspective !
@Tanoaproductionsfiji
@Tanoaproductionsfiji 4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!!!
@stylewithkami
@stylewithkami 2 жыл бұрын
You such a great teacher. Love and admire from Vietnam
@marty34534
@marty34534 4 жыл бұрын
Truely marvellous!
@sidtupe6748
@sidtupe6748 4 жыл бұрын
Such a wholesome speech.✌🏼
@davec8473
@davec8473 4 жыл бұрын
I don't think he's saying you have to go, he's just sharing an interesting fact.
@sumangalaelango680
@sumangalaelango680 2 жыл бұрын
Remarkable insights on Architecture 🙏
@b.j.hinote4301
@b.j.hinote4301 4 жыл бұрын
I like your thinking
@-flutterby7026
@-flutterby7026 4 жыл бұрын
would be great to see this ...
@padhiyogi6663
@padhiyogi6663 4 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKpyhaaCvamqg2w.html
@lequy7906
@lequy7906 4 жыл бұрын
I like this video. Perfect
@ferovers
@ferovers 4 жыл бұрын
This makes sense!
@anupkaushal2371
@anupkaushal2371 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing
@abirahmed1292
@abirahmed1292 4 жыл бұрын
We are definitely wasting our resources, thank you for shedding lights and making us aware
@anupkaushal2371
@anupkaushal2371 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing ! Enlightening !
@user-vp2yv9bw9h
@user-vp2yv9bw9h 4 жыл бұрын
Great man
@lakshmanankomathmanalath
@lakshmanankomathmanalath 2 жыл бұрын
Great!!!💙💙💙
@saranbhatia8809
@saranbhatia8809 Жыл бұрын
Great talk!
@Dadododa-ti8ty
@Dadododa-ti8ty 4 жыл бұрын
Huygens is a major problem of such vestivels, the rivers are severly polluted includind corpses of cows, it affects downstream villages and cities.
@crawdadds
@crawdadds 4 жыл бұрын
I live in L.A. and over years time cement seems relatively impermanent. They are always doing construction and repaving the roads.
@maabrar8577
@maabrar8577 4 жыл бұрын
Asli cement bangur cemenet! Sasta nahi sabse acha!
@strictnonconformist7369
@strictnonconformist7369 4 жыл бұрын
The problem pointed out in this presentation to some degree is permanence isn't always an asset as much as it's a liability. Cities and their structures in a lot of the world, in my observation, are a form of premature optimization or dreaming of what people think things should be, made of expensive hard-to-change materials that either results in something written in stone that doesn't change to fulfill current needs, so it's often abandoned or wasted, or is expensively destroyed and replaced with something that does. Either way, designing and implementing in such a manner has a high cost.
@mitchmcquinn
@mitchmcquinn 4 жыл бұрын
I love you, Raphaël ❤️
@talon1084
@talon1084 4 жыл бұрын
This is how the Olympic stadiums in Rio de Janeiro should have been built. Now they're just empty structures lying about; a reminder of the millions of dollars spent to create a facade of a thriving city while the government neglected those in poverty. If even a few of the buildings were created in a way that Mr. Mehrotra is talking about, the resources could have been recycled and used to create better housing for the poor or for schools and such. What is explained in this video is the kind of innovation the world needs moving forward
@faustin289
@faustin289 4 жыл бұрын
A very powerful idea presented in such persuasive tone!
@anupkaushal2371
@anupkaushal2371 2 жыл бұрын
Wish I Cud visit it during the mela ....
@amberpazmino5067
@amberpazmino5067 4 жыл бұрын
Nice
@levimaitland
@levimaitland 4 жыл бұрын
Shipping container housing. Stackable, cheap, and portable.
@polly_D
@polly_D 3 жыл бұрын
I'm not an architect or an urban planner but I completely agree with Rahul's thinking, views and outlook about all things concrete & steel. They're (to me) expensive, ugly and never permanent though they may give that impression. Nothing's permanent in this world!
@nigelpalmer9248
@nigelpalmer9248 4 жыл бұрын
Bathing in that river is a test of your immune system.
@Jerome...
@Jerome... 4 жыл бұрын
India is a test for your immune system.
@IUbU
@IUbU 4 жыл бұрын
In case of having a bath in those rivers, they offered not to born again and not that the one will survive B).
@manjeet2698
@manjeet2698 4 жыл бұрын
Jerome L. Not india. You need to do some research on northeastern india.... Its more than heaven
@WWZenaDo
@WWZenaDo 4 жыл бұрын
@1:03 - That's actually kinda scary, when one considers how dirty that water must become...
@padhiyogi6663
@padhiyogi6663 4 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fKpyhaaCvamqg2w.html
@hetjamesfield4473
@hetjamesfield4473 4 жыл бұрын
Great Video, Thumbs Up From Me!
@invox9490
@invox9490 4 жыл бұрын
The first thought was about Refugee Camps, but it's the "sewage" part that I have GREAT doubts about... Cuz I've been to India, and let me tell ya...
@leopoldosantos4436
@leopoldosantos4436 4 жыл бұрын
Permanent solutions for temporary problems tend to give us permanent problems with only temporary solutions
@MildSatire
@MildSatire 4 жыл бұрын
Leopoldo Santos wut
@MasterCMac
@MasterCMac 4 жыл бұрын
that makes no since...
@brunogodoy7625
@brunogodoy7625 4 жыл бұрын
thats poetry
@56independent42
@56independent42 4 жыл бұрын
for everyone says it doesn't make sense or "since": my computer runs out of battery i plug in a charger parliamentary then it doesn't run out now i need to keep it plugged in or it will run out.
@thinkman2467
@thinkman2467 4 жыл бұрын
@@MasterCMac it does you don't. By the way since means after or a consequence of something. For example since you didn't pay attention in English you don't know the difference between sense and since. Make sense now.
@Cuddlzzz1738
@Cuddlzzz1738 4 жыл бұрын
Why do i like ted talks 🤔
@anurag_mathur_
@anurag_mathur_ 4 жыл бұрын
Temporary should be the new permanence.
@thisismyname8627
@thisismyname8627 4 жыл бұрын
Temperance is the the only permanence.
@lunariumaqua3033
@lunariumaqua3033 4 жыл бұрын
It should be.
@mr.e695
@mr.e695 4 жыл бұрын
Living Zen art
@Auburndad50
@Auburndad50 4 жыл бұрын
Ironic this video came out during Burning Man Festival in Nevada.
@user-rh7cu2yu6j
@user-rh7cu2yu6j 4 жыл бұрын
한국어 버전자막도 해주세요
@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth
@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth 4 жыл бұрын
I hear it like people despise this life here on earth. I don't understand that you hope in 12 yrs you get another chance for a ride out of earth to hopefully life in the hereafter or like. It's all just a moment So choose good at where you stand and you get the same granting of the truthful way of the journey of the hereafter. Ian.
@pinktoes3875
@pinktoes3875 4 жыл бұрын
PLANET EARTH GONNA END IN 12 YEARS! IT'S ALREADY TOO LATE! WE'RE DOOMED!
@nimeshsompura
@nimeshsompura 4 жыл бұрын
Why so complicated.
@InfoBitdidi
@InfoBitdidi 4 жыл бұрын
What I've learned with this video that real state in north america is not a safe haven anymore !
@STELLVIA.
@STELLVIA. 4 жыл бұрын
How about a bunch of self assembling 3D printed skyscrapers Oh sorry we are about 1000 years too early for that NEVERMIND
@jonomoth2581
@jonomoth2581 4 жыл бұрын
Self disassembling 3d printed skyscrapers ?
@MassDynamic
@MassDynamic 4 жыл бұрын
i say the way we currently use cars is massively inefficient. a) cars take up a lot of space while parked. b) most people that drive to work use a four-seater, with only one person in it. it's a giant waste of resources just to get to and from work. more investment should be made on public transit and encourage the use of bicycles and other forms of human-powered transportation.
@dineshbhansali6166
@dineshbhansali6166 3 жыл бұрын
Ya very true! But if time is not compromised
@PasanMahindapala
@PasanMahindapala 2 жыл бұрын
This deconstructs everything 😶
@thearchitect1601
@thearchitect1601 4 жыл бұрын
It’s honestly a cool concept, but I then remember, it this “temporary “ city is literally no different from a slum.
@vincentmette3427
@vincentmette3427 4 жыл бұрын
Hi
@VishalChauhan-ee6bz
@VishalChauhan-ee6bz 4 жыл бұрын
I stopped when he said genges
@arvindjha3450
@arvindjha3450 4 жыл бұрын
He is speaking in a language his audience would understand.
@parikshthchauhan1539
@parikshthchauhan1539 3 жыл бұрын
If that's the case what will you read this out as 'Gangetic delta plain'
@lightningcreates1271
@lightningcreates1271 4 жыл бұрын
hello
@thanglaka9543
@thanglaka9543 4 жыл бұрын
_People of _*_Hindustan_*_ are known as _*_Hindustanis_*_ or short _*_Hindus_*
@manjeet2698
@manjeet2698 4 жыл бұрын
Thang Laka but i live in Bharat
@thanglaka9543
@thanglaka9543 4 жыл бұрын
@@manjeet2698 *_Jawaharlal Nehru_*_ was born in _*_Allahabad_*_ and Modi wants to change the name of his birth place too_
@jangxx
@jangxx 4 жыл бұрын
13:37 nice
@MrChet407
@MrChet407 4 жыл бұрын
Impermanent = Temporary = chicken soup
@juanvalencia2323
@juanvalencia2323 4 жыл бұрын
100 bed hospital?? only??
@thesenator777
@thesenator777 4 жыл бұрын
Not many get sick for a short period of stay. No need for excess beds.
@njack1994
@njack1994 4 жыл бұрын
The problem is not the structures we are building. Rather it is the fact that we live in a society where want and need are interchangeable. I agree with his reasoning but it would still be much more efficient to build permanent structures to satisfy the needs of a growing population if that was the only goal in mind. What we need to stop allocating resources to is war but that is being idealistic and naive.
@abcdxx1059
@abcdxx1059 4 жыл бұрын
100 beds and 1000 docs 🤔 the number game doesnt look so good
@manjeet2698
@manjeet2698 4 жыл бұрын
abcd xx idiot.... 100 bed hospitals
@topnews3512
@topnews3512 4 жыл бұрын
почему, Вы думаете, что вас это не касается???
@gzpo
@gzpo 4 жыл бұрын
How is it paid for?
@Realxar
@Realxar 4 жыл бұрын
And people worry about robots stealing their jobs.
@P.R_ka_punch
@P.R_ka_punch 4 жыл бұрын
Always Remember !! This is INCREDIBILE INDIA still many things to go and learn from this country. !! This is just a Dot size, This is Not it !!
@AnomolousGrandeur
@AnomolousGrandeur 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah yeah, I'm sure it's beautiful; a paradigm of cleanliness and order!
@topnews3512
@topnews3512 4 жыл бұрын
Пригласите меня на передачу я вам расскажу о вашем мире без прикрас!!! Закрывать глаза - это не значит, что этого НЕТ!!! Это всё дерьмо есть и скоро оно придёт и к вам!!! Оно перельётся через край!!! И ни кто не выживет!!!
@daveanderson5680
@daveanderson5680 4 жыл бұрын
7 million people in one spot without running water or working sewers? I think I’ll pass on that festival.
@li_tsz_fung
@li_tsz_fung 4 жыл бұрын
How many of these temporary things are actually good for the planet? Things could be make reversible. But those things are more likely end up in the landfills. Are you really going to ship a Olympic stadium bit by bit with airplanes?
@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth
@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth 4 жыл бұрын
11:15 pause and see a trade mark track of the night time farmer being's of earth. See tree's on right side and the bark with all the white amber colors exposed beneath the tough look of exterior bark protection. Well the bare wood Should not be exposed (no look at other examples not in a flood) this type marking is actually a physical change, micro helps with seeing widdled wood and no shavings left behind etc. Cheers on making this real. Ian Armstrong aka Tinman Bigfoot Tracker Channel Canada British Columbia BC.
@jade4897
@jade4897 4 жыл бұрын
Does this guy want me to live in a tent? Hmmmm
@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth
@SupernaturalBeingsofEarth 4 жыл бұрын
That floats...
@nimeshsompura
@nimeshsompura 4 жыл бұрын
Nobody is asking you to live anywhere. Nobody is forcing you to watch it either.
@marshallsmithman9398
@marshallsmithman9398 4 жыл бұрын
first comment gang
@sohailhassan8977
@sohailhassan8977 4 жыл бұрын
Wrong believes.
@aldemir6127
@aldemir6127 4 жыл бұрын
No thanks, I don't want any part of it,
@mainlawcafewv7681
@mainlawcafewv7681 4 жыл бұрын
I dont care.
@samiam5557
@samiam5557 4 жыл бұрын
This guy reminisces of living in a refugee camp as a boy.
@dansshade5621
@dansshade5621 4 жыл бұрын
Mildly interesting presentation about how not too bright people doing not too bright things in the name of not too bright religion.
@mehforreal6954
@mehforreal6954 3 жыл бұрын
"not too bright religion" fancy that coming from the follower of an abrahamic cult who's prophet was given birth by a virgin!
@darrenwalker3986
@darrenwalker3986 4 жыл бұрын
Why did I waste 7 minutes watching this disgusting rhetoric 😒
@md.abdussalam5472
@md.abdussalam5472 4 жыл бұрын
Nice
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