Apr
4
to Apr 11

NASA Recap & Final Storyboarding

Consider the takeaways from your experience at NASA and begin to incorporate new ideas and modifications into the work. We are beginning to delve into detail and design development, working towards complex and complete drawings for final review. 

The idea is, once you know what story you are trying to tell, and what your interests are, you can target the images and artifacts that you need to develop and perfect in order to advance and communicate your ideas.

For Monday:

Define your goals and objectives for the final review. What are the main questions you are asking? What are you trying to tell the world about your work? What will you take away from the final presentation and as you go into your final year or into the world? How will your project (and presentation) best respond to these questions?

Storyboard your final presentation. Will you have models? Boards? Posters? What will they try to communicate? How will you craft your story?

Storyboard a final 2-3 minute video of your work. What kind of narrative will you use to present your work? Will it be from the perspective of the human occupant? From the Mars planner? From the robot? From yourself as architect? How can you best tell the story of your process and your project.

Monday we will have a pinup showing your plan and storyboard for the final review, as well as your work timeline/schedule for the remaining weeks.

 

In general I would like you to have touched on each part of our timeline for your final:

  • Timeline of Human Activity
  • Timeline of Construction
  • Timeline of Resources/Materials
  • Timeline of Mars Future History

And to touch on the goals/questions we've been raising:

  • Your Dreams/Aspirations and How they fit in the larger discussion of Futurism in Architecture
  • Sustainability: translating from space to earth
  • The Role of the Architect

Additionally I would like you in your presentation to be able to answer:

  • Does this have any application to Earth? What can you bring back to Earth from this? How might these ideas be used for life here - from inspiration for the future to sustainable methods? (the "so what" question)

The following are the requirements, but it is up to you to design them to craft your story using these images.

  • Mars Scale:
    • Mars Overall Timeline
    • Siting/Location and In-Situ Resources
  • Habitat Scale:
    • Timeline of Construction / Construction+Deployment Sequence
    • Timeline of Mission
    • Closed-Loop/Sustainability/Systems Diagram (resource sources and flows)
    • Section with Material Properties (Tectonics)
    • Wall Section with Material Properties(Environmental Performance)
    • Human Occupancy (Programming and Planning)
    • Overall Plans, Sections, Elevations, Renderings
  • Human Scale:
    • Timeline of Human Activity
    • Experiential Human Occupancy 
      • Renderings
      • Scale Drawings of Public, Communal, Intimate Scales
      • Technology Interface
  • Process
    • How did you work?
    • How would the work of the architect and design thinking fit in designing for outer space?
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Assignment 2: Resources in Time and Space
Jan
20
to Feb 1

Assignment 2: Resources in Time and Space

Explore the resources on Mars, how humans have typically formed in relationship to these resources, what we use them for, how we extract them, and how we design cities and infrastructure around them. After group investigation, discover a subject you'd like to explore more and apply it to the development of the programming and planning of your project.

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