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« MARTIAN HABITAT: WHAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT ARE POSSIBLE IN EXTREME CONDITIONS » Pierre Brulhet & Olivier Walter , architects dplg (France), members of the French chapter of the Mars Society, co-presidents of the website www.archi-espace.com and co-writers of « Entre la Terre et Mars ». For nearly 15 years, with the collaboration of students from the School of Architecture Paris Val de Marne (France) and of the Strate College Designers, we have been working on different type of habitat (bases, rovers...) to live on Mars. Our research of design and architecture had leaded us on very different way from what we know on Earth. Propositions, supported by models, images and 3D movies, maps, illustrations, as well as travel (MDRS simulation in the desert of Utah), have allowed us to test a large number of design possibilities: - Comfort of the crew in small area. - Light design, because the travel must be as cheap as possible by taking less volume in the spaceship through technical solutions such as inflatable structures. To understand this architectural approach, we will present step by step the different levels of our thinking: - Martian architectural competition with architecture students - Euro-Mars: a first French concept - Mars Direct 1: a permanent base with inflatable structures. - A Martian colony for 70 people.
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