Neil Leach 
Space Architecture [PDF ebook] 
The New Frontier for Design Research

Forty years on from the first moon landing, architecture in Space
is entering a new era. Over the last decade, there has been a
fundamental shift in the Space industry from short-term pioneering
expeditions to long-term planning for colonisation, and new
ventures such as Space tourism. Architects are now involved in
designing the interiors of long-term habitable structures in Space,
such as the International Space Station, researching advanced
robotic fabrication technologies for building structures on the
Moon and Mars, envisioning new ‘space yachts’ for the super-rich,
and building new facilities, such as the Virgin Galactic ‘Spaceport
America’ in New Mexico designed by Foster + Partners. Meanwhile the
mystique of Space remains as alluring as ever, as high-profile
designers and educators – such as Greg Lynn – are
running designs studios drawing upon ever more inventive
computational design techniques. This issue of AD features the most
significant current projects underway and highlights key areas of
research in Space, such as energy, materials, manufacture and
robotics. It also looks at how this research and investment in new
technologies might transfer to terrestrial design and construction.

Space architects: Constance Adams, Marc Cohen, Ondrej Doule,
Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger, Scott Howe, Brent
Sherwood, Madhu Thangavelu, Andreas Vogler, Robert Zubrin.

Architects: Bevk Perovic Arhitekti, Dekleva Gregoric
Arhitekti, Foster + Partners, Neil Leach, Greg Lynn, OFIS
architects, SADAR + VUGA.

Tabella dei contenuti

5 EDITORIAL

Helen Castle

6 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITOR

Neil Leach

8 INTRODUCTION

Space Architecture: Th e New Frontier for Design Research

Neil Leach

16 What Next for Human Space Flight?

Brent Sherwood

20 Planet Moon: Th e Future of Astronaut Activity and
Settlement

Madhu Thangavelu

30 Moon Capital: Life on the Moon 100 Years After Apollo

Andreas Vogler

36 Architecture For Other Planets

A Scott Howe

40 Buzz Aldrin: Mission to Mars

Neil Leach

46 Colonising the Red Planet: Humans to Mars in Our Time

Robert Zubrin

54 Terrestrial Space Architecture

Neil Leach

64 Space Tourism: Waiting for Ignition

Ondøej Doule

70 Alpha: From the International Style to the International
Space Station

Constance Adams and Rod Jones

78 Being a Space Architect: Astrotecture(TM) Projects for
NASA

Marc M Cohen

82 Outside the Terrestrial Sphere Greg Lynn FORM: N.O.A.H. (New
Outer Atmospheric Habitat) and New City

Greg Lynn

90 Ground Control: Space Architecture as Defined by Variable
Gravity

Ondøej Doule

96 Projecting Into Space: International Student Projects

Neil Leach

108 3D Printing in Space

Neil Leach

114 Astronauts Orbiting on Their Stomachs: The Need to Design
for the Consumption and Production of Food in Space

Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger

118 Brave New Worlds: Reaching Towards a New Era of Space
Architecture

Larry Bell

122 Terrestrial Feedback: Reflections on the Space
Industry

Neil Leach

128 COUNTERPOINT Space is an Ecology for Living In

Rachel Armstrong

134 CONTRIBUTORS

Circa l’autore

Neil Leach is an architect and theorist. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California, Visiting Professor at Tongji University, and a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. He has authored and edited numerous publications. He is the author of The Politics of Space (Routledge, forthcoming. He edited the bestselling Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1997); he guest-edited the Digital Cities issue of AD and co-edited Digital Tectonics (Wiley, 2004).