Develop a speculative / conceptual design for a martian garden and propose a series of ‘tools’ that will be used to tend our Martian garden.
In Spring 2016, this course was offered in conjunction with 62492 ’Mars Habitat: Building an Atmosphere’ with Christina Ciardullo. Together these two courses explored going to Mars from compleme...more
Exploring tools for a Martian garden, this proposal inverted things and examined what would happen with a bottom-up inflatable approach and investigated the habitat as both a tool for tending and an interactive organism that works with the plants it maintains. This line of inquiry is well developed, with multiple prototypes, conceptual renderings and a strong process driving experimentation.