Houston, we have a problem: How to design for Mars?

• Autor(a) principal: Arruda, Cheila Cordeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20203
• topic: Utopia; Space architecture; Mars; Habitat; Arquitetura espacial; Marte; Arquitetura vernácula -- Vernacular architecture; Espaço; Design

A story of fascination with thousands of years: Man and space. During the last century, we have witnessed a technological evolution so extraordinary that we accomplished placing man in space, living in it for long periods of time and we are now to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing in 1969. The question is: What is the next step? Ideas of living in outer space have been abundant since the twentieth century, picturing different scenarios and diverse types of living, especially represented in films with both utopian and dystopian views. Due to the renewed interest in space, architects are also developing designs for habitats and future colonies in outer space (Moon, Mars, and Space). With a completely new environment, it’s important for the future Space architects to understand the adversities that need to be surpassed and define design guidelines for the “new” mars vernacular architecture, for a successful human colonization.