AA Jordan LOGBOOK 2017

MAARS

logbook JULY 1 - 10, 2017

J RDAN

AMMAN

PETRA

WADI RUM

contents about

1.0.... .... Directors Intro .... The AA .... Participants .... Agenda

travel

2.0.... .... Wadi Rum .... Petra .... Amman

EVENTS

3.0.... .... Lectures and Discussions

work

4.0.... .... Participants Outcomes

2018

5.0.... .... Upcoming Programme

thank you Our programme is made possible through the sponsorship, support and partnership of various institutions.

We are continously seeking partners and sponsors to advance our successes. For opportunties, feel free to contact the Programme Director at jordan@aaschool.ac.uk We thank the German Jordanian University as our host institution and partner:

Additionally, several companies, institutes and media outlets that help shape our success:

A special thank you to Mr. Robert P Mueller of NASA KSC for his guidance, involvement and interest in the AA Visiting School in Jordan

director intro

Thank You for your interest in our AA Visiting School Programme. It is an intensive, thought-provoking workshop for architects, engineers and designers - professionals and academics alike.

2017 was our fourth cycle of the programme, it marked the beginning of a new agenda focused on designing for planet MARS. The new agenda opens up new opportunities, inspirations, and the potential to solve new and complex challenges.

Driven by nature, technology and a desire for innovation and creative experimentation, our ultimate goal is to inspire and derive intelligent design solutions for complex design problems presented to us by the ecology and environment on MARS. We are working with industry and subject matter experts from the architectural world, and the space and aeronautics world to enable this vision.This logbook logs our experiences from 2017, join us, in 2018 and beyond to become part of the paradigm.

Kais Al-Rawi

Programme Director AA Visiting School Jordan

about

the aa

Unique, Dynamic, Independant and International The Architectural Association is the UK’s oldest and only private school of architecture, and has for decades been recognized as an influential world-wide leader in architectural education. AA School graduates are the recipients of numerous prizes including Pritzker Prizes, RIBA Gold Medal & Stirling Awards, AIA and other design awards. The AA School is the world’s most international school of architecture, with full-time students joining the AA from more than fifty home countries each year.

The AA Public Programme each year organizes one of the world’s largest public programmes dedicated to contemporary architectural culture, presented at the AA and other venues and including dozens of visiting architects, artists, exhibitions, symposia and other events open to a public audience as well as 3,000 AA members world-wide.

The AA Visiting School is an extension to and embodiment of the AA School’s ‘unit system’ of teaching and learning architecture. The hallmark of this model is the delivery of distinctive, highly focused design agendas by talented teachers who lead a small, collaborative group of students, architects and other creative people in the development of projects. The AAVS is similarly about learning, exploring, collaborating and experimenting with a diversåe group of international partners – schools, cultural institutions, local teachers and practitioners – in order to reimagine the shape, form and expectations of architectural education.

The AAVS courses aim to forward architectural knowledge and practice by direct engagement with the world’s larger, often untested realities of today.

AGENDA The prospect of human colonisation of outer space has become much closer to reality than it was a few decades ago. This mission has been focused primarily on the planet Mars, as it represents the best candidate for future inhabitation in terms of travel distance and environment. While Mars is arguably the next most hospitable planet within our solar system, it’s climate, atmosphere, gravity, and surface water present challenges to human life.

Architecture, design and engineering rapidly become critical disciplines to the viability of such colonisation. The design criteria of inhabitable spaces on Mars poses a series of highly utilitarian requirements to make such spaces inhabitable due to the challenges of the environment on Mars. Simultaneously, the planet possesses a spectacular diversity of landscape topologies and morphologies. As designers, we are constantly inspired by nature. Mars unveils a new nature for us to study, research, document, and transfigure into design ideas. Through such design-research and the use of cutting-edge design technology, an opportunity exists to create a new architecture that is responsive to such an environment, simultaneously inspired by it and aspiring to coexist and fuse into its nature. That very specific opportunity, mindset, methods and cutting edge technology are the core focus of the upcoming visiting school in Jordan.

The core agenda of the 2017 course is to speculate on potential architectural interventions within the Martian landscape. The agenda of the AA in Jordan for the past four years (2014 - 2016) is at its very core about appropriating design intelligence from nature. This year, we transition from exploring nature on earth, to nature on Mars.

At the southern edge of Jordan lies the Wadi Rum Desert, a natural UNESCO world heritage site. The morphology of the landscape of Wadi Rum is distinct from any other with its natural rock formations and red sand. It has often been associated with Mars, and is the closest place on earth to Mars, given their strong resemblance. We inhabited the Wadi Rum desert for two days and visited the neighbouring city of Petra which is known for the architecture that is carved within its stone landscape.

In 2015, Ridley Scott’s ‘The Martian’ featuring Matt Damon was filmed in the Wadi Rum desert with minimal edits to the landscape. The main editing was limited to the blue sky, which was transformed into red to represent dusty atmosphere on Mars.

We continuously aim towards processes and workflows capturing the synthesis of cutting-edge design tools with design and research of such phenomena on one level, and on another it has been about the spatial and architectural outcomes that emerge from this experimentation. We deliberately delimit ourselves from one method, tool or scale of intervention. Rather, we operate in a unit system where three overarching units investigate different software platforms and tools, different scales and types of interventions to generate an array of outcomes.

We studied various components of architecture for Mars, that will focus both on technology and fabrication with local materials and additive manufacturing methodologies, as well as on the spatial architectural experience. As a bigger ambition, we hope to speculate on a network of spaces that could form a potential self-sustaining colony on Mars.

We have been fortunate over the past four years to have had an exemplary experience: joined by over one-hundred enthusiastic individuals from over twenty-four countries from all around the world; in addition to several notable guests joining us from London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vienna and Stuttgart. In 2017, we were thrilled to have Rob Mueller from NASA share his expertise and years of experience researching technology developed towards reaching Mars.

team, faculty

Programme Director: Kais Al-Rawi Visiting School Director: Christopher Pierce Interim AA School Director: Samantha Hardingham

Local Coordinators: Hasan Hamdan Linda Mazahreh Visiting School Coordinator: Andrea Ghaddar Dorotea Petrucci Jolene Malek

Programme Faculty: Material Scale Unit:

Spatial Scale Unit:

Urban Scale Unit:

Julia Koerner Kais Al-Rawi

Vincenzo Reale Conor Carson Black

Jan Dierckx

& participants

The participants, faculty and guests who have joined AA Visiting School Jordan in 2017 are coming and working from atleast 21 different countries. Participants come from academic professional backgrounds such as BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, HKS Architects, among others in addition to students from Oxford Brookes University, AA Intermediate School, GJU, AUB, LAU, ASU and others.

Our faculties expertise is not limited to architecture but extends to the disciplines of Urban Design, Industrial Design, Fashion Design, Facade and Structural Engineering.

Their currenty and previous background in practice and academic appointments includes offices and institutions including: Zaha Hadid Architects, Ross Lovegrove Studio, Synthesis Design+Architecture, Foster + Partners, ARUP, Walter P Moore; in addition to the AA and UCLA.

Our participants in the 2017 programme are: Abdul Rahman Sibahi Adel Haddad Adham Sinan Ahlam Jamal El Dine Alix Biehler Andrea Gonzales Palos Artemis Maneka Besan Abudayah Bryan Rincon Chaitanya Bhatia Christine Sa’d Dana Halasa Gaelle Fenianos Hanan Kataw Iris Kodal Jasmine Abu Hamdan Jhila Prentis Jihane-May Slaoui Joanna Maria Lesna Karen El Asmar Kenismael Santiago Khaled Al Tarifi

Layan Barakat Lea Garguet-Duport May Makia Mazen AlAli Montaser Al-Qaryouti Mustapha Makki Nabaa Mohammed Nader Akoum Noel Surti Nour Al-Amaireh Paola Michelle Gonzalez Marquez Saadet Yuncu Samer Wannan Taleen Samawi Tracy Karam Valeria Armendariz Pedrero Viana Wagogkh Vinay Shekar Wala Sahloul Zainab Wahbi Ziad Abd-Alhaleem

Taking ‘selfies’ atop a rock bridge formation

travel

wadi rum . mars

Wadi Rum Landscapes - Photographs captured by AAVSJO Faculty and Participants

Wadi Rum Landscapes - Photographs captured by AAVSJO Faculty and Participants

Wadi Rum Landscapes - Photographs captured by AAVSJO Faculty and Participants

petra

Petra Archeological Park - Photographs captured by AAVSJO Faculty and Participants

Petra Archeological Park - Photographs captured by AAVSJO Faculty and Participants

AMMAN . BASE

Amman - Host Institution Venue - German Jordanian University

Amman - Introductions, Lectures, Reviews - at Host Institution: German Jordanian University

Screening ‘The Martian’ in Wadi Rum

events

Rob Mueller, NASA - Virtual Lecture German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan

Jan Dierckx, Foster + Partners - Lecture German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan

H.E. Dr. Kamel Mahadin, FASLA - lecture German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan

Carla Aramouny, American University of Beirut - Lecture German Jordanian University, Amman, Jordan

Lattice Project - Spatial Unit

work

material scale unit

AA VISITING SCHOOL JORDAN July 1st-10th 2017 MARS - 10 day workshop in Amman, Wadi Rum and Petra. Jordan

Material Scale

led by JULIA KOERNER

Design of a Space capsule. The atmosphere on planet Mars is not suitable for human life. This is because the air pressure on the surface of Mars is equivalent to that on planet Earths atmosphere at 25 km altitude. Humans cannot survive, live and work unaided on its surface.

Full body suits are required to allow astronauts to work with both complex construction materials and sophisticated machinery and at the same time keep them safe and protect them. The Viking Orbiter Infrared Thermal Mapper suggests that the warmest temperature may be 27 °C and the coldest −143 °C at the winter polar caps. (www.mars-one.com) Beyond the temperature difference there is also a lighter gravity and a higher solar radiation. Environmental conditions on planet Mars put forward a potential for designing innovative space suits and second skin systems for astronauts. Suits which enhance human performance in outer space. Smart fabrics and interactive textiles which lead to super human enticement and protective capabilities. Cutting edge digital fabrication techniques such as 3D printing and robotics not only enhance space suit design but also allow for protection. Considering textiles as a rare source of material, architects are challenged to think about onsite building materials and ways of manufacturing with different resources.

Historically materials have had an influence on outer space architecture. Soft Materials and composites were used both for their lightweight material properties as well as for their strength and environmental performance. One example is Project Echo I, a communications balloon launched in 1960 by NASA. The Balloon was inflated with air but required a great difference in weight and amount of air to perform within the different atmospheres. It did not have a rigid skin and accordingly was used at high altitudes where it would be subjected to negligible aerodynamic drag force. To keep the sphere inflated in spite of meteorite punctures and skin permeability, a make-up gas system using evaporating liquid or crystals of a subliming solid were incorporated inside the satellite. (www.nasa.gov) Apart from Mylar and other temperature controlling fabrics researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have found out that the best building material for a new home on Mars may lie in an unexpected material: ice. There is water on Mars, but it is frozen under the North and south polar ice caps. The polar ice caps, which were once thought to be made up of only dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide), are now known to have water ice beneath a top layer of dry ice. Similarly to ice, the dune formations on planet Mars have a rich pallet of parametric surface patterns.

The ‘Material Scale’ will investigate organic studies of Martian topologies. Characteristics of dune patterns and morphologies of frozen landscape will be studied for surface detailing and fabric pattern and building formations. The material research should not be limited to a wearable or body suit instead can be scaled and the focus will be on small scale building structures and its relationship to the body. A “Space Capsule” We will look at tensile formations, inflatable structures, 3D printed systems, composite material shell structures and robotic moving flexible building systems. When looking at the Desert in Jordan, Wadi Rum, inspiration can be drawn both from the vernacular architecture of bedouin tent structures as well as the dune formations and geological erosion. Apart from that the construction with Sand bags and local materials are an additive building process, at its simplest by using local materials such as sand, rocks and regolith.

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In the geological formations found on the surface we can find a layering of surfaces. A rougher top layer which is constantly shifting and responding to the the external environment, sits almost like a protective shell over a smoother layer which remains relatively unchanged. The properties of the ribbons and pockets formed on the surface by the martian environment can be interpreted as double layered skin.

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Programme Director: Kais Al-Rawi

visiting school jordan

Scale Instructors: Julia Koerner & Kais Al-Rawi Project Authors: Dana Halasa; Karen El Asmar; Jhila Prentis

MATERIAL SCALE

perforare perforare Valeria Armendariz Jasmine Abu Hamdan Zaina Sweidan May Slaoui

The project aims at comparing and analysing the layering and rippled textures of the existing landscapes of Mars, Wadi Rum and Petra. Translating that into the design of a space suit. Looking at the micro-scale of how the different layers of the space suit interact with one another to form a perforated ventilation system that allows for air to circulate betwen the different layers to maintain a constant temperature against harsh external conditions. The layering and perforation of the space suit could then translate into a larger scale, to become a layered wall for a living unit in outer space.

Programme Director: Kais Al-Rawi Scale Instructor: Julia Kรถrner Project Authors: Jasmine Abu Hamdan, Valeria Armendariz, Zaina Sweidan, May Slaoui

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Looking to the future, a space suit will transform into a living vessel which not only holds humans, but helps control their direct environment and allows them to adapt to Mars while enabling evolution to occur. The suit allows the body to move, breathe, grow and regulate its temperature in a process that results in speciation.

As humans begin to survive Mars’ gravitational force, they will initially become taller and skinnier, and then later on become “fatter” with the increasing of the subcutaneous layer of the skin. The elastic nature of the suit will accommodate that, growing and shrinking with the body, while slowly exposing parts of the body to the harsh environment, enabling the evolutionary process to occur.

h o m o m a r t i e n s i e s

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Through extensive material research and studies, the space suit will be comprised of several components that, once together, integrate and communicate with each other to create a human/martian environment. Using inflatable materials and sensor technologies, the suit will automatically react to extrerior temperature stimuli, as well as the human skin temperature, and inflate or deflate accordingly. The space suit also looks to the human skeletal system and the different types of joints, mapping the locations of jointsto develop a pattern that will not inhibit the motion of the homomartiensies specis.

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RIGID

HINGE

SMALL INFLATION

RIGID

MEDIUM INFLATION

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LARGE INFLATION

INFLATION OF SPACE SUIT AT WRIST

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TEXTILE W/ SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY

FLEXIBLE THIN METAL FILM THERMAL SENSING SYSTEM

EPIDERMIS

HUMAN SKIN LAYER

alien wear

Alien Wear

Design of a suit that mediates between the human body and the environmental conditions of the Martian Terrain.

Once in space the humans loose a lot of the muscles in the body due to the difference in environmental conditions. This can be problematic for when the astronauts come back to earth. In order to help the muscles to stay active within a different environment. The suit will be there as a reinforcement for the body muscles and that would allow the performance of the astronaut to be as productive as possible.

Noel Surti Zainab Wahbi Lea Garguet-Duport

Rock Formation at Petra

The suit is made up of multiple layers that have a specific function in order for the astronaut to survive on mars. Concentrating mostly on the activity and research that would be done on Mars, the exoskeleton that serves as a structural element becomes an extension of the human body in order to perform better in space. This exoskeleton is also here as a barrier to the degeneration of the body muscles.

Mars Landscape - NASA

Mars Landscape

Distribution of Loads in the Wadi Rum Terrain

Section through the Skin layers

Torso

T1

T2

T3

T4

T4

T5

Layer one of the suit

Layered Surface

Start of the exoskeleton

MATERIAL AGGREGATION

The exercise refers back to the active and passive zones of the joints in the human body.

Various subtractive iterations of the mass lead us towards an aggregation of mass which contributes to the re-inforcement of the human musculo-skeletal structure.

T6 A.2

B.2

Center of the suit as a protection A.3

B.3

Progression of the Hand A.1

A.4

B.1

B.4

Re-inforcement of the body structure

C.2

D.2

Musculo-skeletal Structure

C.3

C.1

C.4

D.3

D.1

D.4

D.1

H1 F.2 E.2

F.3 E.3

F.1 E.1

Combining the two layers

F.4

E.4

Active Zones Passive Zones

Analysis of the Inflatable layer

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H2

H3

H4

H5

H6

H7

edge Shekar E Vinay D G E Naba’a Mohammed

texture and void

Sa’adat Yuncu

This project focuses on Edge conditions and surface treatment by understanding the human body edge conditions as they are fastest cooling points and attempts to generate movements of Patterns and Texture inspired by wadi rum and mars surface.

Directionality guiding the Roughness caused by erosion. The sudden change of Colors / Layers by creating a stratum. Sudden change in material property in terms of surface treatment. Striation varying in scalar diversity.

The rusty color of its soil, which is comprised of iron-rich minerals. The Martian surface is not all rust-colored, however.

Human body: Whether a warm, fuzzy feeling associated with falling in love or a cold, emptiness when depressed, it’s hard to conceal your deepest emotions when your body expresses them so readily. And, as a recent study has revealed, these physical reactions are consistent across the world.

Temperature regulation. Unlike on Earth, where heat can be transferred by convection to the atmosphere, in space, heat can be lost only by thermal radiation or by conduction to objects in physical contact with the exterior of the suit.

Since the temperature on the outside of the suit varies greatly between sunlight and shadow, the suit is heavily insulated, and air temperature is maintained at a comfortable level.

A communication system, with external electrical connection to the spacecraft or PLSS SECTIONAL VIEW

BOOTS

HELMET

SUIT

GLOVES

Programme Director: Kais Al-Rawi Scale Instructors: Julia Koerner & Kais Al-Rawi Project Authors: Vinay Shekar; Nabaa Mohammed; Saadet Yuncu

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spatial scale unit

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Spatial Scale

led by VINCENZO REALE

The “spatial scale� unit will investigate the design and assembly of the spaces where the Mars inhabitants will live and operate. Three themes will be the core focus: integration, modularity and functional optimisation.

-Integration: caves and other underground structures, including Martian lava tubes, canyon overhangs, and other Martian cavities would be potentially useful for manned missions, for they would provide considerable shielding from both the elements and intense solar radiation to which a Mars mission would expose astronauts. Attendants will have to explore the Martian landscape through the NASA map tools and downloadable 3dimensional terrain. They will have to identify areas where the natural formations of the Martian soil could provide shelter and facilitation to the development of a colony. This will also be integrated with a research during the study trip in Wadi Rum. After that they should focus on techniques of subtraction and addition in order to generate spaces.

-Modularity: the unit will then focus on how architectural spaces on Mars could be developed through the aggregation of different components. Every component of the space will have to connect to the existing ones and allow for an extension. It will have to have a degree of versatility and the possibility to develop different functions.

-Functional optimisation: during the development of the units different kind of optimisations will be developed, from a structural to a general performance point of view. The final outcome will be the development of optimised and qualitative characterised spaces.

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The Martian (2015) // 2001 Space Odissey (1968) // Beijing National Hotel - Emergent Architecture

ISS Component and exploded views // Gundam (1979)

COCOON for GH - BESPOKEGEOMETRY

seed

SEED Kenismael Santiago

Seed explores and grows in cavities found in the rock formation on Mars. In the space that is both in the rocks and outside, the seed grows inspired by the formation of the mountains it inhabits. The spaces grow in relation to the formal characteristics of the cavity while optimising the spatial qualities, accessibility and circulation.

A structure built from the material found in the rocks holds the connected spaces and blends with its surroundings.

Hanan Kataw Mazen AlAli

MARS / WADI RUM inspiration image. keep frame size as shown.

project main money shot, keep frame size as shown

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1.1

1.2

CONTOUR SECTIONS

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1.3

1.4

1.5

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Dust storm in Mars prove to be a primary obstacle for human habitation.

TAWLED JOUZEAT particle regeneration TAWLED JOUZEAT Chi Bhatia Joanna Maria Lesna particle regeneration

Often, the approach is to protect any form of shelter from the hazardous conditions of Martian dust storms. However – our approach is exact opposite. Upon further investigation, Martian dust storms hold high levels of electro-static charge and the abundant resource of dust (a core component we must embrace on the planet). The size of the dust particles are 1/10th of sand particles on Earth, and therefore the ability to tackle the problem of fine granule levels of dust is vital to human existence.

particle generation

By storing and converting the energy of dust storms to leverage the abundant resources of dust to sustain human life on Mars, we can provide a sustainable method of habitation on Mars. We would capture the power (and particles) of the dust storm by creating an electro-magnetic field – to then regenerate the particles into a volumetric form.

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This synergistic strategy, fusing infrastructure and function to further explore the Martian stratosphere and atmosphere.

Often, the approach is to protect any form of shelter from the hazardous conditions of Martian dust storms. However – our approach is exact opposite. Upon further investigation, Martian dust storms hold high levels of electro-static charge and the abundant resource of dust (a core component we must embrace on the planet). The size of the dust particles are 1/10th of sand particles on Earth, and therefore the ability to tackle the problem of fine granule levels of dust is vital to human existence.

By storing and converting the energy of dust storms to leverage the abundant resources of dust to sustain human life on Mars, we can provide a sustainable method of habitation on Mars. We would capture the power (and particles) of the dust storm by creating an electro-magnetic field – to then regenerate the particles into a volumetric form.

Bryan Rincon Wala’a Sahloul

This system would provide a synergistic expansion strategy, by fusing infrastructure and function to further explore the Martian stratosphere and atmosphere.

location

phases | particle growth

location

phases | particle growth

habitable volume control FUNCTION OF: NUMBER OF PEOPLE x VOLUME OF CHEMICAL = VOLUME OF HABITABLE SPACE [STRENGTH OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FLUX]

habitable volume control FUNCTION OF: NUMBER OF PEOPLE x VOLUME OF CHEMICAL = VOLUME OF HABITABLE SPACE [STRENGTH OF ELECTRO-MAGNETIC FLUX]

strategy

strategy program

iterations

program

iterations

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Programme Director: Kais Al-Rawi Scale Instructors: Vincenzo Reale & Conor Black Project Authors: Chi Bhatia; Joanna Maria Lesna; Wala Sahloul; Bryan Rincon

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tion

lattice

RHIZOME Kenismael Santiago-Pagan

Our concept rely on Prominent mineral veins. These are found at the “Garden City” site examined by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover.They vary in thickness and brightness, as seen in this image from Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam). Veins such as these form where fluids move through cracked rock and deposit minerals in the fractures, often affecting the chemistry of the rock surrounding the fractures. Curiosity has found bright veins composed of calcium sulfate at several previous locations. The dark material preserved here presents an opportunity to learn more. Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called “Garden City” on lower Mount Sharp. The prominent veins illustrate how the layers provide a record of different stages in the evolution of the area’s ancient environment through time.

Samer Wannan May Makia

Strategy: A robot will launch a pod (the origin) that will explode in space and will fall into given coordinates inside the canyon, and an inflatable structure will be trigered to start groing into bubbles then corosive and non corosive material will be layered on top them and with help of Co2 these will deploy along the corosive material to self create a network of space.

MARS / WADI RUM inspiration image. keep frame size as shown.

Strategy: A robot will launch a pod (the origin) that will explode in space and will fall into given coordinates inside the canyon, and an inflatable structure will be trigered to start groing into bubbles then corosive and non corosive material will be poured on top them and with help of Co2 these will deploy along the corosive material to self create a network of space.

The different iterations created were to experiment with the spatial volumes. Both were combined for the mixed use functions proposed.

ITERATION 1 Low Density Iteration: Created larger volumes, suitable for LABORATORY area.

The Site

1. Pod Launch(The (TheOrigin) Origin ) 1. Pod Launch

2. Material Injection

3. Co2 absortion (natural space expansion)

Sections

ITERATION 2 High Density Iteration: Created smaller volumes, suitable for RESIDENTIAL quarters.

1. Pod launch (The Origin) 2. Pod germination 3. Self assembly light srtucture Co2 absortion 4. 4.

Conecting Links 3. 3.

Co2 absortion 4. Conecting Links 3. Co2 absortion Conecting Links (inflatable expansion) Object operation (natural space expansion) (natural space expansion) (natural space expansion)

4. Material aplication 5. Space 5. Space Space Network Network (Co2Network Natural injection for space expansion)

ITERATION 3 Iteration 3- Mixed Density : Mixed of Iteration 1 & 2 . Combine live / work spaces.

CO2 TUBE/ ACCESS

PASSAGE

LABORATORY SPACE

RESIDENTIAL UNIT

LAYERED MARTIAN SOIL

EXISTING CRACK

LABORATORY SPACE

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4. Conecting Links

5. Space Network

martian plants

MARTIAN PLANTS

Plants in deserts are small, spread out, and deeply rooted. Our colony on Mars would benefit from imitating the behavior of plants.

There is a variety of Pods with unified structure but different internal functions, Like how plants have different functions above and below ground, so do the Pods. Living Pods are underground for elements protection. Research Pods are above ground for daylight and quick access to surface. All Pods share the same exterior design, but differ with their locations and interiors. Each pod is an 18m high dodecahedron, with modular connectors on all 12 faces. And since each single Pod is as high as a 4-story bulding, they have enough flexibility in their interiors.

Abdul Rahman Sibahi Nour Al Amaireh Ahlam Jamal El Dine

HIGH LATITUDE AREAS High Latitude Areas Ice gets closer to the surface near the Martian Poles.

Which makes high latitude areas suitable for our initial location.

Low Latitude Areas

LOW LATITUDE AREAS

CO2 ice is closer to the surface at higher altitudes

SECTIONS: Pod types and interiors Though the Pods are identicial on the exterior, they can be fitted and adjusted to suit different purposes.

From left to right: 1. Resource Extraction and Storage Pods: This specific arangement is assumed for water resources, where the bottom pod extracts the water and treats into a useable form, while the top pod stores it for distribution to the rest of the colony.

2. Living Pods: the spacious interiors allow for different floors with a lot of freedom for the residents on how to arrange themselves.

Near the Martian Equator, ice is much deeper and harder to get. In spite of the better weather, this makes the Equator a terrible place to settle.

CO2 ice is farther away from the surface at low altitudes

TRIAL 1: Boring

TRIAL 2: Tree

TRIAL 3: R

The straightforward implementation. The only 2: Tree This typical tree structure.

Each point has three branches TRIAL 1: Boring TRIAL TRIAL 3: Root variance is the distance between the units. Bottom coming out of it, and branches that lead into nearby The straightforward implementation. The only This typical tree structure. Each point has three branches Going on the general direction of the underground are connected to Bottom the top ones, providing points are unified - resource, to increase connectivity. variance isunits the distance between the units. coming outmore of it, and branches that lead into nearby this algorithm imitates the behaviour of single units are connected to the top ones, providing are unified - to increase connectivity. roots. Each stem connects to a Pod, and splits halfway straightforward access to more resources andpoints points of interest. straightforward access to resources and points of interest. into another branch. The algorithm stops when the variance comesresource from collecting changing “depth” theresource.

The variance comes from changing theThe “depth” of the Pods the get close enoughof to the branch, and its lateral/direct ratio. branch, and its lateral/direct ratio.

The variance comes from the length of the stem and the deviation angle. However, individual iterations of each set of variables still produce very different result, necessiating curation.

3. Research Pods: conveniently placed above the surface, with quick access to communications, mobile units and solar arrays.

Going on the g resource, this a roots. Each stem into another bra resource collect

The variance co deviation angle of variables still curation.

LOCATION: Viking 2 Lander

FINAL REVIEW SHEET 06

MAARSSTEP 3: Grow towards them

STEP 2: Locate the nearest resources

Guided by the greatest minds in the world, and NASA, we choose a location to base the Hub. This is the central part of the colony, and houses its most important operations.

The most important part about a oclony on Mars is ‫رم‬ that‫ وادي‬Wadi Rum Using algorithms that mimic natural root growth, we it should be self sustainable as much as possible. This ‫ البتراء‬Petra extend our colony in function and reach until it gets closer is achieved by locating resources, extracting them, and to the resources. Using Poids, we extend our colony as storing them. needed.

PODS: What are they?

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The Hub design is outside of our scope.

GROUP NUMBER 5

The main unit of our program. Each unit houses a differemt function, whether it is living, research, resource extraction, or greenhouses.

The location is at the coordinates N47.9 E133.7.

All Pods share the same exterior design, but differ with their locations and interiors. Each pod is an 18m high dodecahedron, with modular connectors on all 12 faces.

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RESEARCH

The location of the Viking 2 Lander is the closest alrea known location to the poles. While the concept is not location specific, choosing a known location for it wh we have plenty of knowledge about would allow the human colonists to research more deeply and extensi

UNIT 02 - SPATIAL SCALE

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STEP 1: Establish a landing site

GREEN HOUSE

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GROUP NUMBE

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PODS: Examples The illustration on the left shows how big the single pod is to a single human.

The illusration on the right shows how the Greenhouse Pod would look like from the outside.

Research and Greenhouse Pods need to be above the earth. While Living Pods are placed ungerground since they become more protected from Mars’ harsh weather and radiation. Resource Extraction Pods are placed near resources.

UNIT 02 - SPATIAL SCALE

JORDAN

FINAL REVIEW SHEET 02

MAARS

GROUP NUMBER 5

‫ّان‬ ‫ عم‬Amman ‫ وادي رم‬Wadi Rum ‫ البتراء‬Petra

JORDAN

MAARS

‫ّان‬ ‫ عم‬Amman ‫ وادي رم‬Wadi Rum ‫ البتراء‬Petra

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ROOT

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We preferred the Root variation, with a deviation angle of 30 degrees, and a branch length of 20m. This allows the Pods to stack close to each other and still allow some aesthetic variation on the way

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MAARS

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SPATIAL SCALE

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urban scale unit

AA VISITING SCHOOL JORDAN July 1st-10th 2017 MARS - 10 day workshop in Amman, Wadi Rum and Petra. Jordan

Urban Scale

led by JAN DIERCKX

Building a dwelling on Mars is quite a serious endeavour compared to humankind’s past space explorations. Because the Earth and the red planet both orbit the sun, travelling there does not only take a long time; the opportunities to get back are limited to a small window occurring once every four years. It is therefore paramount that a self-sustainable habitat is established by the time the pioneers arrive, which keeps organically repairing itself in the harsh Martian environment and expands gradually to accommodate more astronauts.

As it is prohibitively expensive to bring large quantities of material from Earth to Mars, it is much more efficient to bring a compact inflatable skin. Although this bubble provides a pressurised and oxygenised environment; it is very fragile and would not withstand micro-meteorites or solar flares. Protection is added by a 3D printed shell, constructed by robotic rovers from the Martian sand.

Because of the long distance between Earth and Mars there is a long communication delay of up to 25 minutes, making it very inefficient to control these rovers remotely. Therefore, a system inspired by swarming ants, where the robots are given goals rather than instructions is a much better approach. Each individual actor is useless on their own but when combined into a workforce, it results in not only an interesting and adaptive system; it also ensures a high level of redundancy, which means the task at hand can be completed even if a large set of robots fail.

Finding inspiration from the beautiful Jordanian landscape we will develop a system inspired by Gaudi’s catenary structures to imagine and develop an interconnected set of structurally efficient domes to protect a set of inflatable enclosures brought from earth. We will use genetic algorithms to evaluate and optimize these shapes for different requirements using various tools. The domes will expand into an urban context using similar techniques to build a proper village on Mars. If time allows we will materialize this landscape using various rapid prototyping tools.

The second chapter of the workshop will consist in building a set of relatively simple robots which can navigate this urban context created in the first part. These rovers will execute a variety of tasks, for example (virtually) carrying resources from one location to another. To achieve this, they will not be remote controlled, but follow a set of rules resulting in emergent behaviour. Learning from how the robots behave, we will explore the rules and results using various in- and outputs on the robot like LEDs, light and sound sensors, gyroscopes, line followers and so on.

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Artemis Maneka Ziad Aref ( ( Andrea Gonzalez

PARASITUS

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The harsh weather conditions of Mars, as well as the need for building with local materials, inspires an intervention that uses the existing topography as a source of protection and structural support. The project consist of a structure that inflates and deflates depending on the external conditions. On the first occupation mission, automated robots would reach the Red Planet in Olympus Monds. They use lasers to scan the surface of the mountains and locate caves that are suitable for human occupation. Caves are connected to generate a colony with a series of spaces of different scales.

When human occupation starts, external inflatable structures are used as additional public and infrastructural spaces. The facade of the inflatable is dynamic, and allows different lighting conditions and structural protection depending on its configuration. The exterior is in constant change in order to generate different sizes of spaces for diverse uses or to transport heat and water to different sections of the colony. With time, the colony will expand up the mountain with new connections inside and outside the topography.

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Artemis Maneka / Andrea González / Ziad Araf AAVSJO 2017

First Mission

Recognition and preparation of terrain

30° North Height 22km

Height 18km

Height 6km

Height 12km

Second Mission

Height 17km

30° South

Establishing the colony

Temporal spaces

Potential landing sites Olympus Monds

Permanent spaces

Inflatable Facade Full Expansion

Collect hot air/ Generate Condensation/ Create spaces with contact to the outside

Standard Expansion

Direct air and water flow/ Control the size of outer spaces to afford different functions

No Expansion

Push air and water into the caves/ Avoid harsh conditions

Capsule Connectivity Iterations Inflatable Facade

Inflatable Facade

Inflatable Facade

Energy Production Energy Production Laboratories Laboratories

Air Heating System FoodAir Production Heating System

Living Spaces Food Production Living Spaces

Water Production Water Production

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m.a.s.a Alix Biehler Gaelle Finianous Nader Akoum

M.A.S.A.

M.A.S.A. (Modular Anti Settled Aggregation) is a nomadic space colony on Mars. It is composed of singular streamlined modules for both living and research. These modules adhere to one another to form aggregations and alter in dynamics according to the surrounding conditions and geographical features of the terrain. Therefore, M.A.S.A. could be defined as an anti-settlement, existing in opposition to settlements on Earth.

M.A.S.A.

Alix, Nader, Gaelle

M.A.S.A. (Modular Anti Settled Aggregation) is a nomadic space colony on Mars. It is composed of singular streamlined modules for both living and research. These modules adhere to one another to form aggregations and alter in dynamics according to the surrounding conditions and geographical features of the terrain. Therefore, M.A.S.A. could be defined as an anti-settlement, existing in opposition to settlements on Earth.

M.A.S.A.

Alix, Nader, Gaelle

M.A.S.A. (Modular Anti Settled Aggregation) is a nomadic space colony on Mars. It is composed of singular streamlined modules for both living and research. These modules adhere to one another to form aggregations and alter in dynamics according to the surrounding conditions and geographical features of the terrain. Therefore, M.A.S.A. could be defined as an anti-settlement, existing in opposition to settlements on Earth.

M.A.S.A.

Alix, Nader, Gaelle

LOCATION 1

Aggregation Diagram

TERRAIN DIAGRAM & RULES of AGGREGATION

Wind: 10km/h Temperature: -70 °C Light: 0.5Lux

Aggregation Diagram

module to landscape

Geographical feature: Crater M.A.S.A. (Modular Anti Settled Aggregation) is a nomadic space colony on Mars. It is composed of singular streamlined modules for (Rated as 8/10) both living and research.

These modules adhere to one another to form aggregations and alter in dynamics according to the surroundLOCATION 2 Settlemt capcity: 100 ing conditions and geographical features of the terrain. Therefore, M.A.S.A. could be defined as an anti-settlement, existing in opposiWind: 100km/h Temperature: 10 °C tion to settlements on Earth.

module to landscape

Module to Module

Light: 1Lux Geographical feature: Rile (Rated as 8/10)

Attraction

Module to Landscape Module to Module

Repulsion

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Settlemt capacity: 50

LOCATION 3

ADDITIONAL RULES

Settlemt capcity: 100

module to module

LOCATION 4 Wind: 1km/h Temperature: -15 °C Light: 0.8Lux Geographical feature: Mountain Range (Rated as 2/10)

2 vertical connections along top & bottom faces

Crater Mountain Plateau(flat land) River/Rile Albedo Elements

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Attration overwrites Repultion (garanty cluster formation) Exept emediate collision immediate collition?

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yes / weather protection yes / directional (motion feuled (motion by wind)feuled by wind) yes / 0 to 20 Day light

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module to module

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2 horizontal connections along adjacent faces

allows for a 2 dimention multi directional aggregation

allows for a 3 dimention aggregation - limited to 2 levels, top bottom connection

allows for a 3 dimention aggregation - limited to 2 levels, top bottom connection

UNIT 03 - URBAN SCALE

UNIT 03 - URBAN SCALE

1 connection

2 connections

3 connections

FINAL REVIEW PROJECT SHEET 02

GROUP NUMBER 4

FINAL REVIEW PROJECT SHEET 02 GROUP NUMBER 4

Programme Director: Kais Al-Rawi

allows only for a 1 dimention linear aggregation- max 2units

allows for a 2 dimention multi directional aggregation

allows for a 3 dimention aggregation - limited to 2 levels, top bottom connection

Attration overwrites Repultion (garanty cluster formation) Exept emediate collision immediate collition?

Range > 50cm

Ass

Orga accor to l typo

Human Yes

+10

Atmosphere yes / directional (motion feuled by Wind wind) yes / under 0 over 20 Temperature Dark

-

Human Variabe

Connection 4

ctions aggregation

Resting

Wind: 10km/h Temperature: 3 °C Light: 0Lux Geographical feature: Albedo element (Rated as 0/10)

Aggregation diagram

Wind Temperature light

yes / weather protection (motion feuled by wind)

Geography

Data exchange Supply

Settlemt capcity: 10

-10

Atmosphere

Variabe

Connection 4

4 connections aggregation

Fixed data

Numeric

Aggregation diagram

Fixed data

Wind: 56km/h Temperature: 18 °C Light: 1Lux Geographical feature: Plateau (Rated as 5/10)

bridging planets BRIDGING PLANETS Christine Sa’d Taleen Samawi Mustapha Makki

- Building on Mars is interesting for several reasons. One of which is the absence of a historical reference. This gave us the notion of interpreting our architectural history and knowledge on Earth throughout the inner spaces of each functional unit.

- We were interested by the natural cluster of the mountains, so we thought of embedding different functional spaces into them. Furthermore, bridging these various functions together on different levels. We started off by choosing an actual site on Mars, then we chose three main mountains that will host our main functions in them, which are :The Mission Control, The Living Spaces and The Since Labs. Then we tried to connect all these functions by bridges, these bridges act as transitional spaces and as well have sub functions within them. We were able to create an Urban Master Plan to be able to set these functions together and see how they would interact with one another in a homogeneous way.

- Our goal is to challenge the way we as humans perceive our daily lives and our interaction with our environment throughout rethinking non-traditional spaces for humans and robots to interact in.

- We wanted to emphasize the different experiences throughout these bridges by creating visual and physical connections between the inner and outer surroundings.

- The dynamic spaces will be imposed not only through bridges but also throughout different functions and relative regenerating geometries.

Our aim is to create homogeneous urban setting.

Programme Director: Kais Al-Rawi Scale Instructor: Jan Dierckx Project Authors: Christine Sa’d; Taleen Samawi; Mustapha Makki

URBAN SCALE

fabric city Besan Abudayah Montaser Al-Qaryouti Kheld Al Tarifi

2018

mars 2.0

Sunday 24 June – Tuesday 3 July 2018 | Amman - Petra - Wadi Rum Wadi Rum Desert, on the southern edge of Jordan, bears a remarkable resemblance to the ecology of Mars. The desert served as a set for Ridley Scott’s recent film ‘The Martian’ starring Matt Damon, where minimal edits were needed to the landscape to represent Mars.

As the AA’s second design-research programme in Jordan focusing on Mars, participants will research the natural ecology of the Red Planet and speculate on the design of future interventions that couple cutting-edge technology with research into natural morphologies and phenomena on Mars. Algorithmic and computational design methods will unveil material, spatial to urban potential in design.

The ten-day programme will bring together a network of distinguished international faculty, experts and guests to offer design-research units, specialist software tutorials and a series of lectures and talks. The programme will be primarily based in Amman, and will include an exclusive visit to the UNESCO worldheritage sites of the Wadi Rum desert and Petra.

Prominent Features of the workshop/ skills developed - Computational design methodologies - Exclusive visit to UNESCO world heritage sites of the Wadi Rum Desert and Petra - International team including emerging designers and educators - A series of lectures from world-renowned guests (past speakers included Ross Lovegrove, Ben Aranda, Mark Foster Gage, Julia Koerner among others) - Specialist seminars in cutting edge technical software (including: Rhino Python Scripting, Grasshopper, Processing, Autodesk Maya) - Access to digital fabrication facilities - Public Exhibition Participants will receive a certificate from the AA upon completion of the programme.

Full Information can be found on our prospectus online (ISSUU) or website www.aavsjo.com Fees AA Visiting School Jordan requires a fee of £895.

MAARS

‫ّان‬ ‫ عم‬Amman ‫ وادي رم‬Wadi Rum ‫ البتراء‬Petra

2.0

J RDAN JUNE 24TH - JULY 3RD

2018 PROSPECTUS

The fees includes access to core workshop events: -design studio units -specialist software seminars -lecture series and guest programme -private bus transportation to Wadi Rum and Petra -two days accommodation in Wadi Rum -site visits and access fees Accommodation Shared Hotel Accommodation will be arranged in Amman for international participants at a discounted rate. Accommodation in the Dead Sea is included in programme fees.

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