There is an excellent exhibition entitled ‘Moving to Mars’ that has just opened at the Design Museum in London and will run to February 23 next year. Well worth visiting if you are passing through London.
https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/moving-to-mars
We hope you will all be able to join us for our special session on Space Architecture at the IAC 2019, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday 23rd OCT, 11:30 – 13:00, Room 146A.
The panel session FUTURES PAST AND PRESENT: Space Architecture in the Imagination and Reality is sure to be an exciting and engaging discussion with our panellists representing:
What we used to imagine in the past – Margaret Weitekamp PhD, Space Historian.
What the public still imagines today – Leonard David, Journalist.
What we are doing today – Sandy Magnus PhD, Astronaut
What we are doing tomorrow – Bob Smith, New Space Executive
With questions guided by our space architects Barbara Imhof, Brand Griffin, Brent Sherwood and Christina Ciardullo.
We hope you will join us there.
The ICES abstract solicitation for 2020 is out. The 50th ICES will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 12-16 July 2020.
The deadline for abstract submission is 8.November.2019.
https://www.ices.space/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/2020-CFP-final-Full-F.pdf
SATC is also planning to hold the next Space Architecture Symposium (SAS Lisbon) alongside the conference – more details about the event will be announced in due course.
please find below list of space architecture related events scheduled during the IAC 2019. Last updated 20/10/2019
20th Oct (Sunday)
16:00 – 17:45, Room 144B: AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee Meeting (open to SATC members).
18:00 – 20:00, Room 144B: Trans-disciplinary and Inter‐Generational Space Architecture Discussion Panel, (open to conference delegates).
20:30 – late, Space Architecture fellowship dinner, location to be announced at the Trans-disciplinary panel (open to all interested).
21st Oct (Monday)
15:00 – 17:00, Room 145A: Session E5.1a – Space Architecture
23rd Oct (Wednesday)
11:30 – 13:00, Room 146A: Special Session Futures Past and Present: Space Architecture in Imagination and Reality.
24th Oct (Thursday)
13:15-14:45, IP Area: E5 Interactive Presentations
25th Oct (Friday)
13:30-15:30, Room 145A: Session E5.1b, Space Architecture
The list of events above are specifically related to space architecture, but there are many other IAC sessions and papers that may also be of interest to space architects. Also there may be other ad-hoc space architects community get-togethers during the IAC – details of which will be finalised and announced during the IAC.
A selection of other Space Architecture related papers in IAC 2019:
Report by Georgi Petrov: This is a brief report on the 2019 International Conference of Environmental Systems (ICES), that was held in Boston, MA, USA at the Omni Parker House Hotel, July 7-11, 2019. Along with Francois Levy and Sandra Häuplik-Meusberger, I co-chaired organizing the Space Architecture Technical Committee’s participation in this year’s ICES.
The International Conference on Environmental Systems, or ICES (known prior to 1990 as the Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems), is an annual technical conference focusing on human spaceflight technology and space human factors. Session topics include: Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS), thermal control, life sciences, extra-vehicular activity (EVA) systems (including space suit design and human-robot interaction), space architecture, and mission planning for exploration. The conference has taken place annually since 1971. Next year’s conference will be in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Space Architecture session was a big success. We had ten presentations in three sessions. We had very good attendance with peak attendance for each session of 50, 60, and 30.
We had a good mixture of regulars and some new faces. There were four former astronauts at the conference and I saw all four of them at our session at one time or another.
Special thanks to my co-chairs Sandra and Francois who ran the abstract and peer review process with me.
The accompanying presentation for the recent AIAA Space Architecture Webinar can be found below.
Webinar – Step by Step Process for Designing Weightless Space Habitats
The webinar course was prepared and conducted by SATC member Brand Griffin. It contains a vast amount of relevant information and guidance for anyone involved in any aspect of weightless space architecture or would like to gain an understanding of the importance of designing space habitats for human neutral body posture.
“Building Beyond: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Architecture in Space” was a panel discussion comprising architects, artists, authors, scientists, and engineers speaking about the expanding roles their disciplines are finding in the field of space architecture. Emerging cultural and economic forces are opening aerospace design to more diverse participants and viewpoints, and especially to integrators with skills to collaborate across disciplines. Opportunities and incentives for space architects are increasing, especially in the crossover between space habitation system development and applying lessons learned from space projects and technologies to help development of sustainable, autonomous, and ecosystem-integrated projects on Earth.
The session was held the evening before the Opening Ceremony of the 69th International Astronautical Congress, convenient for arriving delegates and serving as a stimulating introduction to the scope of space architecture and start to the week. Attendance was noteworthy, about 100, with wide-ranging Q&A followed by informal dialogue, fellowship, and refreshments.
Space Architect Barbara Imhof described multiple collaborative projects with designers, engineers, and scientists: expandable habitat prototypes, Antarctic greenhouses, and sintering of lunar regolith. Engineer Daniel Schubert expanded on the role of the broad team that created the antarctic greenhouse project, now in operation, aimed at developing lessons for growing plant life in space. Biologist and Artist Angelo Vermeulen summarized multidisciplinary studies on starship concepts, projecting a visionary future of ecosystems in space. Architect Jan Dierckx from Foster+Partners discussed how their work on autonomous 3D printing for Mars and smart habitation has helped keep the firm at the forefront of advanced Earth construction. Author, Engineer, and Space Architect Brent Sherwood put architects’ unique skills into the context of interdisciplinary design of space systems, and described the long view of human expansion into space. Through lively discussion about their work and the state of space design, the panel highlighted the enthusiasm, interest, and opportunities for multiple disciplines working together on the verge of building beyond.
Webinar: Step-by-Step Process for Designing Weightless Space Habitats
8 November 2018. 1300-1430 Eastern Time
A special educational webinar for anyone who would like to gain an understanding of the importance of designing space habitats for human neutral body posture.
SATC member Brand Griffin prepared and will conduct this web course. It contains a vast amount of relevant information and guidance for anyone involved in any aspect of weightless space architecture. AIAA members pay a special rate; AIAA student members get a huge discount. You can sign up for the webinar on the AIAA page link below:
Webinar: Step-by-Step Process for Designing Weightless Space Habitats
SATC Chair Brent Sherwood has recently written an article about the latest state of Space Architecture. The document can be found below: