The possibility of technical exchange between space architecture and architecture on the earth

Paper number

IAC-08.A3.1.8

Author

Mr. Hayato Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan

Year

2008

Abstract

Because of the aim at the long term and large scale space mission, like human planet explore, safe and comfortable habitations are now getting on demand even in the space. Due to the transportation problem, it is quite difficult that the resource and energy should be supplied by grand-rooted infrastructures, so that we have to cut off these consumptions as much as possible. And in addition they shouldnft depend on the infrastructure but supply and recycle resources themselves. Especially in case of repeatedly and various missions, that is the key to success that the techniques which support these missions should have an economical advantage as well as versatilities. 

On the other hands the infra-free system used on the earth with which they try to free architectures from infrastructure are getting a concern of engineers, for example the circulation system carried out on community scale or the recourse-recycling system of the polar base. One of the reasons is that they have got a feeling of danger for the life in which they exploit natural resources and emit the disposal as it is to the nature. I believe that these technologies, such as a super heat insulation, a biomass energy generator, a complex heat distributing system with heat pump and etc.., have a good relation with the space technologies. And thanks to the competition with other technologies, the earth technologies might have high cost-performance and be more sophisticated in some sense. To study them is good for encouraging the development between the technologies on the earth and in the space, at the same time, is contribution for the environmental problem like global warming.

In this study the main purpose is bridging between the technologies on the earth and in the space due to the comparison and analyse of the low consumption and recycling technologies on each side, earth and space. Simultaneously, it will enable to find a possibility to spin off each other. Therefore I will correct the technologies now used and arrange them with analysis of the possibility of a spin off in the other field based on the performance, simplicity to apply, problem to solve, term of construction, lightness. And if the possibility is convinced I will imagine the vision to apply, how to exchange the technologies in each field.

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