FOSTERING THE ENDEAVOR: ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION

摘要

This paper aims to discuss the integration of architectural education into the human planetary explorationendeavour, through experiences on space architecture related workshops. As the planetary exploration missionperspectives are getting more ambitious than ever, the habitable assets of the mission architectures requireaugmented qualities of habitability and operational capabilities. Architectural education, by its nature, includes thecomprehension, reformation and development of the habitable spaces. The spatial spectrum, in which the architectureis involved, is extended from conventional palette of structures, like residential or industrial buildings to habitable hitechproducts of the contemporary, including aerospace structures. A planetary human outpost is no longer out of thescanning range of the architects. Therefore, the need to enrich the design education with adaptability to actual needsof the technology and progress is emerging. Within this scope, a series of workshops with students from architectureand neighbouring disciplines are made, focused on the planetary habitation systems. Based on the current planetaryexploration objectives, various design options are considered and developed within a limited time frame, akin totypical design studio tasks of the architectural education. In this paper, the results of the workshops are presented in acomparative structure, giving the option to view the conditions of the working environment, such as effects of thefeedbacks from different areas of expertise, the given design basis, production capabilities (e.g. hard-digitalmodelling, drawing). An evaluation of applied methods and an outlook on the further work is provided in the finalsection.