上海外滩美术馆邀请曼谷建筑事务所all(zone)策划第二届外滩建筑节（RAM assembles）。今年，这场探讨建筑思考的双年盛会以“上海野餐”为题。我们以“野餐”这一开放、临时、灵活而集体性的形式作为隐喻，希望这一届的公共项目可以展开新的对话——关于如何建设、如何共居、以及如何适应与转化，并通过艺术家共创工作坊、表演和建筑师讲座等多样形式的活动，构建一个新的让人们可以倾听和交流的平台。这些激发跨界协作、创意实验与社区参与的项目活动在洛克·外滩源街区内全日段开展，各具焦点。
梅 - 林 · 洛科的讲座探讨在世界各地不同的气候环境中，人类如何通过理解土壤与植物材料的厚度、密度及其随时间变化的湿热特性，创造舒适的生活条件。从普韦布洛民居的厚实土坯墙，到热带马来渔村的多孔植物纤维墙体，会呼吸的土壤和植物自古以来便包裹人类自身与居所，帮助人类抵御气候挑战。如今，植物基建材正成为低碳未来的重要组成部分。从轻盈多孔到高密压缩，这些材料的多样形态体现了当代设计与再整合中的尺度张力。洛科的工作探索其在 21 世纪建筑文化中的再激活，并追问人类与植物关系在舒适、生态健康、生物多样性与气候变化中的深层逻辑。
讲者梅 - 林 · 洛科将在讲座后与马塞拉 · 戈多伊对谈。
参与者：
梅-林·洛科博士
耶鲁大学建筑学院和“建筑生态系统”中心助理教授，加纳阿克拉 Willow Technologies 创始人。
马塞拉·戈多伊
实践型研究者，运用批判性制造与数字制造技术探 索建筑可能性并应对环境挑战。现任上海纽约大学互动媒体艺术专业副教授兼学科负责人。
Bangkok-based architecture practice all(zone) directed and curated the second edition of RAM assembles—the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai’s biennial festival of architectural thinking. This year’s edition, themed “Shanghai Picnic,” adopted the idea of a picnic as a grounded, open-ended, flexible, and collective framework to foster new conversations about how we build, how we live, and how we adapt. Through artist-led co-creation workshops, performances, and public talks, the festival offered a space for coming together—for listening, exchanging, and building new ways of being in common. Over two weeks, these events unfolded across the ROCKBUND neighborhood, encouraging collaboration, experimentation, and community engagement.
In this talk, Mae-ling Lokko discussed how comfort has been achieved across varied climatic contexts worldwide through an understanding of soil and plant wall thickness, density, and their cyclic hygrothermal behaviors over time. From the thick adobe walls of stepped Pueblo houses in arid desert climates to the porous, plant-fibre walls of the tropical Nelayan kampung, humans have wrapped themselves and their houses in multitudes of sweaty soil and plant materials to defend against climatic forces. Today, plant-derived materials are emerging as key components of a low-carbon built future.
From light and porous to high-density and compressed states, this talk reflected on the tension between two operative scales in the design and reintegration of these biobased components into contemporary architecture. Lokko’s work explored their reactivation within twenty-first-century architectural culture, probing the deeper logics of human–plant relationships in relation to comfort, ecological health, biodiversity, and climate change. After the talk, Lokko joined in conversation with Marcela Godoy.
Speakers:
Dr. Mae-ling Lokko
Assistant Professor at Yale University’s School of Architecture and Center for Ecosystems in Architecture, founder of Willow Technologies in Accra, Ghana.
Marcela Godoy
Practice-based researcher utilizing critical-making and fabrication technologies to explore architectural possibilities and address environmental challenges. Associate Arts Professor and the Area Head of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai
