Thomai Tsimpou | 26 August 2024 | designboom
Rocket Horizon, led by a team from MIT, represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to create sustainable lunar habitats. This project blends architectural innovation with advanced technology and robust engineering solutions, drawing on ... More
Ellen Eberhardt | 13 August 2024 | dezeen
Boston non-profit Aurelia Institute has created a pavilion showcasing its self-assembling geodesic dome, designed to allow space professionals and the general public to "lead good lives" in zero gravity. A continuation of Aurelia Institute co-founder Ariel Ekblaw's PhD thesis at MIT, TESSERAE aims ... More
Christina Yao | 17 September2024 | dezeen
Projects by architects Sumayya Vally and David Gianotten are among this year's Sydney Design Week highlights, chosen by curators Keinton Butler and Amaia Sánchez-Velasco.
Curated by Powerhouse Museum senior curator Keinton ... More
Matthew Burgos | 30 April 2024 | designboom
Inflatable habitats and stations in outer space fascinate Aaron Kemmer and Maxim de Jong of Max Space, enough to propel them into decades-long research which has now resulted in expandable architecture that can grow as big as stadiums outside Earth... More
Naz Kaplan | 07 February 2024 | designboom
Architects burak celik, naz kaplan, and zeynep ege odabasi unveil ‘genesis v.2’, an extraterrestrial design prototype for a housing colony on Mars. within the framework of building a sustainable system that is able to respond to the current and upcoming ... More
Nour Fakharan | 05 February 2024 | Archdaily
Last week, Hassell revealed the Lunar Habitat Masterplan, a modular concept for a moon base. Developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Cranfield University, the project aims to contribute to the formation of the first ... More
Christina Petridou | 23 December 2023 | designboom
Space Perspective reveals the first images of Spaceship Neptune, a prototype balloon capsule designed for tourism flights beyond Earth’s orbit. Their next test flight, labeled Flight 2, will integrate the ... More
Matthew Burgos | 18 January 2024 | designboom
Foster + Partners’ concept artist and architect Jordan William Hughes designs an elevator that can transport travelers and cargo from the ocean to space. The conceptual artworks, designed without the use of AI, combine ... More
Matthew Burgos | 19 October 2023 | designboom
Space Perspective’s carbon-neutral spaceflight attempt will bring tourists on Earth to the edge of outer space using Spaceship Neptune or a pressurized capsule in the shape of a hot air ... More
Amy Peacock | 20 September 2023 | dezeen Chinese studio Open Architecture has revealed its design for a space museum and experience centre in Yantai, China, which will appear like a mysterious black object in an oceanfront ... More
Matthew Burgos | 16 June 2023 | designboom
After a series of successful test flights to space, Virgin Galactic has finally decided to start its commercial flights from Earth to space, beginning June 27th, 2023. There will be two spaceflight ... More
Lea Zeitoun | 23 April 2023 | designboom
‘Embark on the most pristine spaceship of the 21st century‘, writes Zephalto, a French company exploring new and daring solutions for space travel. The spaceship in question, ... More
Amazing Architecture | Dilshod Shripov
Architectural concept, for 2 astronauts to live on the surface of the moon. There's no atmosphere on the moon, and enormous temperature variations, reaching plus 127 during the day, ... More
Amazing Architecture | Mahdi Eghbali Amlashi
Designed by Mahdi Eghbali Amlashi, the purpose of this project is to establish a moon village with recreational and research approach which ... More
DESIGN BUILDINGS
Moontopia was an international challenge exploring design-led solutions for space architecture. Students, architects, designers, artists, academics and scientists from ... More
By: Tim Spears I designboom
Interstellar Lab is on a mission to build a future full of life on Earth, Mars, and beyond through sustainable design, engineering, and agronomy. Single BioPods as well as large, modular village-like communities ... More
By: David Nixon PhD RIBA FRAS
The present human exploration focus on missions to the Moon and Mars is diverting attention away from the need to begin work on a successor to the International Space Station. ISS is likely to be terminated later ... More
By: Evan Rawn (14th Feb)
Long after earth’s first journey to the moon, the idea of space colonization has continued to fascinate us. It is a subject repeated in countless science fiction works and even architectural proposals. For designers, this new ... More
By: Kristine Klein (08th Sept)
Just a little over a year after he was blasted into the heavens aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard, a major element of billionaire space tourist and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s ... More
By: Lucy Zakharova (30th Jan)
The exterior structure is designed to maintain a stable internal temperature and atmosphere, which is necessary for the well-being and survival of the crew. Its architecture creates ... More
By: Jakub Pietryszyn
Moon is our gateway to the outer space that is why we chose it as a helium-3 research facility. helium-3 is a gas that can be processed into fuel which will be needed to travel further and ... More
By: SEArch+
The SUNFLOWER VAULT Lunar landing pad schematic design concept for 3D printed Lunar Settlement with associated infrastructure as part of the NASA-MSFC led Pioneering ... More
By: SEArch+
ICON, a developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software and building materials, partnered with SEArch+ to work with NASA on the development ... More
2022 | University of Washington
The University of Washington Department of Architecture has a long list of notable alumni working on exciting projects that push the limits of the built environment ... More
Kieron Marchese | designwanted
From lunar habitats to in-flight activity sets—in honour of World Space Week, we’re highlighting the companies doing the most when it comes to space design and exploration ... More
Jeffrey Manber | SPACENEWS
Privately owned space stations, backed by investors and strategic partners, will soon be a reality. Implemented correctly, a dramatic new era of in-space manufacturing, research, ... More
CAAS
CAAS is a new way of thinking about humans and their relationships with their habitats, transporters and their environment, an intelligent way of designing future cities, ... More
By: Debra Kamin | TheNewYorkTimes
The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitational pull tugs ... More
By: Sneha J Uttarkar | TheDesignGesture
In times where space is up and open for commercial travel and exploration, we have to ask ourselves, is the new space race leaning towards colonization? If so, by what time will we ... More
By: Lita Lūse | designwanted
We often hear that size doesn’t matter. But there are instances when bigger is better and certainly more impressive, this is the idea behind these mega architecture concepts ... More
By: NASA
Decades before a space mission happens, space architects spend years iterating the designs and plans for each component to the finest detail possible. For human spaceflight, this means everything from the ... More
By: COMPAC | The Decorative Surfaces
Living off-world has always been a fantasy, albeit one that could be closer than we imagined. But, would it be possible to design a house on Mars? And on the moon? Some architects have no doubt when it comes to ... More
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