RE_MOVE: A Biomimetics inspired movable habitat structure for research and exploration purposes

RE_MOVE: A Biomimetics inspired movable habitat structure for research and exploration purposes

Musetescu, A.

Biloria, N. (mentor)
Vollers, K. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

Explore Lab

2014-12-15

The aim of the project is to elaborate upon performance driven design experiments for habitation and production facilities on Mars. The premises for the project are the advantages of providing a movable self-sustainable spatial structure that can accommodate a full crew as opposed to a static habitat for research and exploration. The concept focuses on the following three aspects: movement and adaptability, in-situ resource production and architectural form finding. Specific attention is placed on biomimetic inspiration for developing movement mechanisms and for the iterative generation of the interior structure and outer shell as multi-performative and integrated solutions. Real-time structural adaptability is also featured as a way to extract maximum resource harvesting potential from the external skin system.

space
adaptive
mars
movable system
cellular aggregation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:29d534f4-f86b-491b-a439-b0133ca0e701

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Musetescu, A.