Sculpting on Mars
Martian Environment – Human Habitat – Water Production
“Well-Nest” is a Mars colony primarily dedicated to water mining and accommodation.
We advocate for the development of a comprehensive system aimed at extracting, storing, and circulating water throughout the colony.
Low Terrain Slope; Min Risk of Excavation Challenge; Expose to Solar radiation – Gaining for Solar; Power Generation; Ice Mining will be less challenging; Ease of Transportation of Local Materials like Regolith, Iron and other Rare Martian material; Any water caught in the solid would sublimate becoming vapor…. IMAP_2010_plate_1.tif (usgs.gov) (2010)
ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter Finds Water in Martian Canyon System | Sci.News (2021)
The evidence for unusually high hydrogen abundances in the central part of Valles Marineris on Mars (Icarus Volume 374, 1 March 2022)
Project location: Mars – Valles Marineris – Ius Chasma, Tithoniae Catenae, Geryon Montes
Water production and drilling tests
Water production: Drilling Ice Layer, Heating and Atmospheric extraction;
Water Recovery from Martian Surface: Auger Dryer process; Microwave; Extraction from Fog; Other mechanical processes… additional option.
Life-Sustaining Energy Maker Discovered Beneath Mars | Courthouse News Service (2020)
Project references
Ludovico Quaroni, Competition “Social housing, Barene di San Giuliano”, Venice 1959
John Wood the Elder, The Circus, Bath, 1729
Fernando de Higueras, Antonio Mirò, Lanzarote (+Zodiac, 15, pp. 86-97)
Sanctuary Hercules Victor – Substructure(Tivoli), 149 BC
Jorn Utzon, Silkeborg Museum, 1965
R. Buckminster Fuller, Dymaxion House 1941
Dante Bini: Bini Shell 60s
Hassell: NASA 3d printed challenge 2022
Intermediate Steps – Scaling – Form Finding – Phases – Why Torus shape ?
(Week 3 – Week 6)
Design Drivers – Martian Challenges – Adaptation
Designing the parts
layouts
Speckle commits: Phases and layers
Designing and Scaling the Parts
construction phases
Designing the parts – Parametrization Steps
construction phases
Shutters
These sections provide evidence of the water mining integration to the living units and of a comprehensive system aimed at extracting, storing, and circulating water throughout the colony
