ArchiSpace

Abstract:
In this decade, we aim to come back to the Moon to stay. It is therefore crucial to develop reliable and safe settlements that adequately protect human well-being from possible threats that the hostile environment presents. ArchiSpace aims to design and build sub-systems prototypes (such as living spaces) of human infrastructures to be built on planetary surfaces, which will be tested in planetary analogue environments. ArchiSpace is pioneering a new field of interdisciplinary and intersectoral research in Europe by bridging geology/space sciences and architecture/space architecture. In particular ‘humanfocused’ habitats have a key-role in designing comfortable, safe and functional living habitats. This will be possible by studying adaptive and resilient architecture facing climate change, but also the quality of spaces in living heritage as vernacular architecture, adapted to extreme environments.