ALPHA: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

摘要

Modularity: What could be more modern? In the decade and a half of engineering studies beginning in the early 1980s that resulted in the design of today's International Space Station, NASA for the first time enunciated the importance of modularity as a fundamental Modernist design principle that would enable completion of the station (also known as 'Alpha') despite political and technological upheaval. In a 1984 document entitled 'Space Station Reference Configuration', NASA set forth four of the most fundamental ideologies of 20th-century architecture: replicability, trans-cultural relevance, flexibility and technological transparency: Inherent in the program objectives is that the manned Space Station have the capability to grow in its ability to provide basic services to all types of customers, and to accommodate additional users of foreseen and unforeseen classes ...