Space Settlement
Architectural and design concepts for human habitation and infrastructure beyond Earth.
STELLAR-1: A Dandelion-Inspired Orbital Refuge Built for Humanity's Eventual Return to Earth
A space elevator and porous lattice shells turn an orbital colony into infrastructure that safeguards people, seeds and knowledge until Earth heals.
THE HIVE: An Asteroid Mining Habitat Built on the Bee, Nature's Victim and Prototype
A speculative orbital ecosystem for the journey to Ceres, where honeycomb modules, robotic Bees and mined resources let a habitat grow beyond Earth.
Ceres Umbrella Mining City: Origami Canopies That Let an Asteroid Mining Base Grow Into a City
Folded umbrella roofs, inflatable modules and regolith shielding form a repeatable system where robotic mining and human living grow together on Ceres.
Deployable Inflatable Mars Habitat: Packing a Free-Plan Home into a Launch-Ready Cylinder
A shortlisted Habitats '20 entry that swaps rigid construction for inflation, unfolding a compact cylinder into flexible rooms on Mars plains and caves.
SPACEPORT: A Bird's Nest Terminal for India's Commercial Launch Coast at Kulasekharapatnam
A thesis spaceport at Kulasekharapatnam layers launch pads, runway and public terminal into a woven, nest-like gateway between civilians and orbit.
ORIGYN GAIA: A Self-Expanding Orbital Station Built from Asteroid Material
Adam Hoehne, Jack Hooper, and Ricardo Miguel propose a modular space habitat that grows itself using in-situ resource utilization.
Space Odyssey: Simulating a Mission to Space on Washington's Anacostia Riverfront
A three-phase architectural sequence of preparation, journey, and discovery transforms NASA's backyard into an immersive space experience.
Curved-Living: Rethinking Communal Habitation Through Orbital Architecture
A rotating space habitat uses centrifugal gravity, 3D-printed recycled debris, and movable pin surfaces to foster communal life beyond Earth.
Gene: A Ring-Shaped Space Habitat Built Around Biology
Shortlisted in the Origyn competition, Gene encodes human life into an annular orbital architecture with closed-loop ecosystems and modular expansion.
Daedalus Station: A Self-Building Orbital Habitat That Engineers Its Own Gravity
A toroidal space station in Low Earth Orbit that mines asteroids, simulates Earth gravity through rotation, and scales from 32 to 448 meters.
Moontrip: Floating Bubbles and Subterranean Caves Bring Space Exploration to Children
The Air Bubble Space Center merges floating capsules, cave-like undergrounds, and 3D-printed structures into an immersive launchpad for young explorers.
Space Matter: A Geological Approach to Space Education Architecture
A shortlisted Moontrip 2019 entry imagines a space exploration center on the outskirts of Washington DC, built from extraterrestrial logic.
