2012F_Design Studio 1_Dayem Section
ARCH-2200 | Adam Dayem, Adjunct Professor
Design Studio
Selected Student Work:
Aaron Barker
Emily Hagge
Depending on one’s point of view, extraterrestrial architecture may seem like an outlandish dream, a necessity for the survival of the human race, or something in between. This studio assumed that on a long time scale, human colonization of the solar system is inevitable. Thus the project to reform large swaths of Mars’ surface was seen to be a real architectural proposal rather than an abstract proposition. Bruce Sterling’s Shaper-Mechanist short stories provide a fantastic, dystopian vision of the future solar system, and they were used to help conceptualize projects in a visionary, but tangible manner.
Spatial and structural characteristics of the projects were developed through a system of interlocking joint components. Specific geometries of the components became a type of information guiding the parts into larger-scale structures intended to rework the existing surface of Mars. These artificial land formations were conceived as cities, partially below ground, inhabited by genetically or mechanically altered humans. Sterling’s work informed specific the characteristics and capabilities of each project’s inhabitants. Finer grains of space and structure were introduced through smaller-scale recursions of the joint components.
Tyler Arciszewski
Aaron Barker
Carolyn Chalfant
Emily Hagge
