Space architecture

Space Architecture: When the architects propose dwelling on Earth, they take a lot of facts for granted. On Earth is a breathable atmosphere and a permanent attraction. This, however, on other cosmic bodies do not apply. And yet all the knowledge gained from designing extraterrestrial objects can also be used on our planet. The new findings may serve in areas affected by natural disasters, can help to reduce energy consumption or may contribute to the construction of intelligent buildings.

Tracy Gill, System Engineer, NASA Johnson Space Center: Currently trying to improve technology and improve systems so that we can embark on a long-term mission. First of all, on artificial life support. We must create a closed cycle, allowing us to spend a long time in terms of space.

The International Space Station, currently the only spacecraft construction. Since the Earth's surface is only 350 kilometers, it is less than Aše to Brno. Stocks regularly bringing the spacecraft from Earth. On the way to Mars, remotely over two hundred million kilometers, but it will not be possible.

We have achieved completely closed cycle. We must learn to recycle all the water, all waste. We need to devise such clothing for astronauts, which will need to be washed or be disposable.

Sounds interesting, so has the idea: He could not have the same access to the country to solve the ecological crisis?

Andrew Doule International Space University, Strasbourg, France: I imagined how the buildings might look like on Mars, how they might look at the moon, or possibly in an environment where there is no gravity. And really, I realized that on Earth the architect in a way that is fighting against the gravity, actually puts up those buildings or trips over the Earth, but always there are very important verticals, it means some columns, walls, tunnels, vaults, everything what they are actually able to carry that burden.

On Mars, the attractive force compared to one-third of the Earth, the moon barely twenty. In orbit, again, does not absolutely no attractive force. The orbit of the Moon or Mars, or do not have a breathable atmosphere, to the man that attacked deadly cosmic rays. How else architect learns respect for the environment, but when he tries to design buildings for survival in the most extreme conditions? Space architecture is essentially a school of architecture for superior sustainability and energy self-sufficiency. For example, the International Space Station must all electricity produced by solar panels. Even water is recycled again and again. On Earth, something could be causing ecological revolution.

First, to save local resources, the saving of non-renewable resources, the design options of separate living units, i.e., that need not be connected to the power network need not be connected to a sewerage system and are largely organic.

This is a proposal for a lunar base LB 10. bolder than NASA base. It includes a launch pad, a small nuclear power plant and the astronomical telescope. Should be placed at the north pole of the moon. Before micrometeorites and radiation fortifications protecting it from the lunar dust, which resembles a baroque walls. Directly on the Moon robotically decomposed using collapsible and inflatable structures. This base will serve a ten-member crew.

Ratislav Šálený, an expert on numerical modeling, Sobriety: We see mantle lunar base, or what separates the cockpit from the external vacuum environment, it's a mantle, which is made from Kevlar, a thickness of only a few tenths of a millimeter and we are currently studying the concept, we find if the design is well dimensioned.

For modeling the behavior of structures under extreme conditions using advanced numerical methods. They allow you to simulate, for example, the voltage and deformations in structures, heat flow and fluid, or electromagnetic phenomena. For the analysis of the project LB10 used NASTRAN software, which was originally developed by NASA for the US. Now commonly used in the automotive industry, construction industry, but also need medicine. In space projects to test new technologies and new materials, which are then transferred to earthly life, where they can improve the lives of people.

San Francisco, Silicon Valley. Now here he headed crew Porto. AMES Research Center, the American NASA last year built office building of the future. They call her the Sustainability Base - Base sustainability, she also sometimes dubbed the first lunar base on Earth. At first glance it looks quite ordinary, but hides a lot of intelligent technologies that were originally designed for the International Space Station or space shuttle. The building is completely energy self-sufficient. With solar panels and fuel cells produce even more energy than it consumes. Compared to conventional office building of the same size is only enough for a ten percent water.

Steve Zorentzer, NASA Ames Research Center: We use water purification system, which our scientists have designed the center AMES originally for the International Space Station. The system is very interesting, on the space station recycles every drop of water, including urine, so the astronauts drank again and again the same water.

Steve Zorentzer, NASA Ames Research Center building control system is able to look on the internet and check the weather forecast for the next day. They learn for example, that tomorrow at nine in the morning will be 32 degrees Celsius, which is quite hot. She looks well to the calendar on your computer all employees and found that a large conference room at ten in the morning will be filled with people, that there will have to be 75th.

In this building, but it is a little different because it's why it will work for two hundred people. Recycled all gray waste water, ie water for washing and showering, which is then used for toilet flushing. Thanks to geothermal pumps with basic sustainability dispenses with conventional air conditioning. The technology is completely environmentally friendly and uses cold water from underground reservoirs, which distributes to the cooling ceiling panels. Ventilation, air circulation and heating is in charge of the control system developed for spacecraft and aircraft. It works in real time and takes into account a number of circumstances, so that resources really used optimally. Synchronization with calendars staff ensures that the air conditioner from switching mechanisms unnecessarily.

Based on the weather forecast and the expected occupancy of space the computer can determine when to turn on the water pump geothermal pumps that cool the room.

The conquest of space is worth billions, but experts believe that the new era of space missions will begin soon and will open new horizons for humanity. Over time, the "up" moves part of production, housing and entertainment. The challenge for architects is to create a suitable environment such activities. Until recently, the only astronaut shoved into some canned box. For example, a mission to Mars, but it will take three years and will require some comfort and technical excellence. Source: http: //www.ceskatelevize.cz/porady/10121359557-port/212563241900005/773-vesmirna-architektura