Space – Page 3 – 【Architectural CAD Drawings】

BIG and NASA collaborate to design 3D-printed buildings for the moon

October 1, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

BIG and 3D-printed building company ICON have revealed they are working on Project Olympus, which aims to develop robotic construction for the moon. The architecture firm and SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture) were enlisted for the project by ICON after it received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) government contract boosted with funding from NASA. Called

The post BIG and NASA collaborate to design 3D-printed buildings for the moon appeared first on Dezeen.

Competition: win tickets to the Turncoats’ Lost in Space debate

February 6, 2020 India Block 0

Competition: alternative architecture event Turncoats has returned for a final season, and Dezeen is giving away five pairs of tickets for its debate on space in the next 24 hours. Following a sold-out first debate last month on nuclear housing, Lost in Space will be held at St John’s Hoxton on 7 February. Enter below

The post Competition: win tickets to the Turncoats’ Lost in Space debate appeared first on Dezeen.

IKEA prioritises space for overhaul of living pod in Mars Desert Research Station

November 26, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

IKEA has redesigned the tiny living pod on the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, filling its interior with space-saving furnishings. The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is a simulation site that’s designed to emulate the physical and psychological conditions of Mars, where groups of up to six scientists can visit to carry out investigations

The post IKEA prioritises space for overhaul of living pod in Mars Desert Research Station appeared first on Dezeen.

“Surviving on Mars could teach us how to live more sustainably on earth”, says Design Museum’s Moving to Mars curator

October 17, 2019 Jennifer Hahn 0

Moving to Mars exhibition opens at Design Museum in London

The Moving to Mars exhibition, which opens tomorrow at London’s Design Museum, explores putting humans on the red planet as the final frontier for design. The show is structured into five parts: Imagining Mars, The Voyage, Survival, Mars Futures and Down to Earth. It explores themes including the role that design plays in keeping astronauts

The post “Surviving on Mars could teach us how to live more sustainably on earth”, says Design Museum’s Moving to Mars curator appeared first on Dezeen.

Viewport Studio completes desert-inspired interiors of Virgin Galactic’s Gateway to Space

September 17, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Gateway to Space interiors by Viewport Studio

Viewport Studio has completed the interior fit-out of the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space building in New Mexico, USA, which has been designed with natural-tone spaces that “deliberately avoid the clichés of the space age”. Gateway to Space’s two floors now play host to a series of work and communal spaces, which can be used

The post Viewport Studio completes desert-inspired interiors of Virgin Galactic’s Gateway to Space appeared first on Dezeen.

Malaysian designers propose building colony on Mars from locally grown bamboo

September 3, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Seed of Life bamboo colony on Mars by Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar

Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet. Named Seed of Life, the conceptual colony design comprises a series of structures woven from bamboo by autonomous robots. Malaysian designers Zaki and Amzar designed the proposal to demonstrate that there may

The post Malaysian designers propose building colony on Mars from locally grown bamboo appeared first on Dezeen.

Visiting space will be “just like going on a cruise” says space hotel architect

August 29, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Space hotel: Von Braun Space Station by the Gateway Foundation

The first commercial space hotel will be more like a cruise ship than Stanley Kubrick’s sleek space station from 2001, says Tim Alatorre, senior design architect of the Von Braun Space Station. The Gateway Foundation is designing the world’s first space hotel – the Von Braun Space Station – with the aim of making visiting space accessible

The post Visiting space will be “just like going on a cruise” says space hotel architect appeared first on Dezeen.

George Bradford-Smith proposes astronaut training facility on face of Mount Blanc

July 3, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Manipulating Mont Blanc by George Bradford Smith

Bartlett graduate George Bradford-Smith has designed an astronaut training facility that clings to the face of Mont Blanc to imitate Mars’ extreme environmental conditions. Named Manipulating Mount Blanc, Bradford-Smith’s proposal imagines a future where humans will inhabit the red planet. It is intended to push astronauts “close to the limit of survival” to help them prepare

The post George Bradford-Smith proposes astronaut training facility on face of Mount Blanc appeared first on Dezeen.

SOM designs inflatable Moon Village to be first-ever lunar habitat

April 11, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Architect firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has unveiled a proposal for a permanent community on the moon, comprising inflating pods that balloon up to accommodate more inhabitants as the population grows. SOM teamed up with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to design Moon Village as “the first permanent human settlement on the

The post SOM designs inflatable Moon Village to be first-ever lunar habitat appeared first on Dezeen.

Japanese space research centre will be suspended over moon-like crater

November 14, 2018 India Block 0

Clouds Architecture Office’s concept designs for the Avatar X space exploration campus in Japan, will have a robotics research centre suspended over an man-made crater. New York-based architecture firm Clouds Architecture Office designed the space technology research campus for Avatar X in old mining site in Oita prefecture, Kyushu, which already resembles a lunar landscape. The

The post Japanese space research centre will be suspended over moon-like crater appeared first on Dezeen.