Design strategies for sustainable and adaptable lunar base architecture

Paper number

IAC-06-D4.1.03

Author

Mrs. Sandra Haeuplik, University of Technology Vienna, Austria

Coauthor

Ms. Manuela Aguzzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Year

2006

Abstract

Sustainable design concepts use methods and tools to strategically enable their long-lasting implementation. The goal is to develop a complex system with many possibilities attached in order to achieve a sustainable lunar base concept that is able to respond to the changing complexities of a mission.

Based on an extensive review of past and current scenarios of moon exploration (mainly ESA and NASA scenarios),the issues discussed in the paper shall lead to the development of sustainable design strategies that enable the evaluation and implementation on the lunar surface,

Key issues include Mobility and Transformability, Adaptable Design and Multifunctionality.

Referring to the data coming from the analyzed scenarios and projects a series of suggestions for conceptual strategies and their possible applications for a lunar base and associated surface elements will be proposed.

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