The Design of Habitats for the Long-Term Health of Inhabitants in the Extreme Environments of Earth and Outer Space.
The Design of Habitats for the Long-Term Health of Inhabitants in the Extreme Environments of Earth and Outer Space.
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2017-05
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Bassingthwaighte, Tristan S.
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Isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments are the most universally challenging
places in which anyone could attempt to survive, but can provide enormous scientific and
economic benefits for those who do live and work within them. The harsh environmental
conditions and psychological difficulties experienced within ICE environments currently limits
the amount of time individuals can spend at Earth’s poles, at sea, or in space to roughly
a year. Enabling humans to survive for a longer duration while remaining physically and
psychologically healthy is the central goal of architecture for ICE environments.
These environments offer access to resources such as oil and gas and enable
unique scientific exploration and discovery. Addressing the difficulties those living in
ICE environments face will increase overall productivity and health. The lessons learned
throughout the process can be applied to more common and less extreme environments as
well. Designs created to make a polar base pleasant to live in are appropriate for high-rise
apartments or other space-restricted communities. Learning to live in extreme environments
has the potential to provide an increased quality of life for those inhabitants and provides
benefits to society as a whole.
The major considerations within ICE design are architectural interventions aimed at
addressing the social, psychological, and physical needs of inhabitants. These categories
define the stressors of ICE environments, from social issues that arise from isolation or
psychological reactions from confinement, to the purely physical requirements of those
in extreme environments like space. Once these elements are understood they can be
addressed through design using newly developed experiential, programmatic, and
technological approaches. The culmination of these efforts will enable the increasingly
productive and healthy inhabitation of ICE environments.
Learning to dwell within ICE environments will provide healthy, long-duration habitation
where humans are driven by the necessity of industry and curiosity towards the natural
world. These same lessons can be applied to the confined spaces of cities and enable safer
exploration of other worlds. The final goal of this branch of architecture is the independent,
permanent settlement of places other than Earth and the most adversarial places on Earth
itself. This dissertation will analyze the social and psychological requirements of those
living within ICE environments, and how these needs may be responded to architecturally.
The final product of this dissertation will be a conceptual design expanding the HI-SEAS
Mars simulation experiment into a multiple phase construction project aimed at discovering
the real-world requirements of design and infrastructure for the construction of a permanent
Mars habitat.
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Isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments are the most universally challenging
places in which anyone could attempt to survive, but can provide enormous scientific and
economic benefits for those who do live and work within them. The harsh environmental
conditions and psychological difficulties experienced within ICE environments currently limits
the amount of time individuals can spend at Earth’s poles, at sea, or in space to roughly
a year. Enabling humans to survive for a longer duration while remaining physically and
psychologically healthy is the central goal of architecture for ICE environments.
These environments offer access to resources such as oil and gas and enable
unique scientific exploration and discovery. Addressing the difficulties those living in
ICE environments face will increase overall productivity and health. The lessons learned
throughout the process can be applied to more common and less extreme environments as
well. Designs created to make a polar base pleasant to live in are appropriate for high-rise
apartments or other space-restricted communities. Learning to live in extreme environments
has the potential to provide an increased quality of life for those inhabitants and provides
benefits to society as a whole.
The major considerations within ICE design are architectural interventions aimed at
addressing the social, psychological, and physical needs of inhabitants. These categories
define the stressors of ICE environments, from social issues that arise from isolation or
psychological reactions from confinement, to the purely physical requirements of those
in extreme environments like space. Once these elements are understood they can be
addressed through design using newly developed experiential, programmatic, and
technological approaches. The culmination of these efforts will enable the increasingly
productive and healthy inhabitation of ICE environments.
Learning to dwell within ICE environments will provide healthy, long-duration habitation
where humans are driven by the necessity of industry and curiosity towards the natural
world. These same lessons can be applied to the confined spaces of cities and enable safer
exploration of other worlds. The final goal of this branch of architecture is the independent,
permanent settlement of places other than Earth and the most adversarial places on Earth
itself. This dissertation will analyze the social and psychological requirements of those
living within ICE environments, and how these needs may be responded to architecturally.
The final product of this dissertation will be a conceptual design expanding the HI-SEAS
Mars simulation experiment into a multiple phase construction project aimed at discovering
the real-world requirements of design and infrastructure for the construction of a permanent
Mars habitat.
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Architecture,
Space,
Environment,
Habitat
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