Monday and Thursday are studio days. On these days in particular, the third floor undergraduate studio is filled with a frenetic energy of design, research, and exploration. Students can usually be found talking excitedly with design professors and classmates in a habitat saturated with trace sketches, study models, and empty coffee cups. Every week we’ll share a completed project, churned out from this energetic studio environment.
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Master Studio | Jaspall Gill
This project is the result of TRD1 and TRD2 overseen by Val Rynnimeri and Anne Bordeleau.
Abstract:
This thesis explores a design of a colony in outer space able to comfortably sustain a dense growing population of 1 million inhabitants. This visionary colony, will exist in the Moon-Earth Lagrange Point 1 and aims to take advantage of the unique physical, phenomenological, and technological aspects of space while providing a level of comfort on par with that of a first world city. This paper engages the practice of architecture by exploring past our current ability of habitation, enabled by being surrounded in an outer space context, ultimately trying to answer the question of ‘what sequence of events will allow for self-sustaining, expanding, city in space and what type of life may we lead within?’ The major axioms in this thesis will revolve primarily around four categories: the potential technology required, the abstract mechanics of how various systems would interact to support life, the timeline that would require a space colony to be built and the urban design that a city of the sky should enjoy. The goal is to synthesize these three areas and ultimately determine the schematic design approach of a space colony. To this end topics relating to, energy production, mining, ecological footprint, modern scenes of fantasy, mechanical and structural engineering, alternative housing, linear cities and political governing will be explored topics of study. The overarching goal of all of this is to discover how we can to build a habitat in orbital space based on our current and projected technology and to explore the emerging field of space urbanism.
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