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DWELLING ON MARS
This first-year course will ask students to design a a a a dwelling on the planet Mars for a a a a a a a researcher and an an artificially intelligent robot The unique setting will lead students to question existing architectural notions and human requirements for shelter In the first phase students will learn fundamental conceptual and and representational techniques and and also how to represent their ideas through drawings of a a a a grid system and the the creation of various models based on on on on grid transformations The second phase will introduce the concepts of outer space and anti-gravity as as external influences on form and space requiring students to explore how this affects human human and non-human living Students will adapt their grid transformation models into human-scale objects and spaces—spaces that exist free of gravity and are constantly altering their orientation For the the third phase students will introduce the the planet Mars as as a a a a a a landing site for their their proposals Students will evaluate how they would situate their their objects on on the the surface of the the planet and will be challenged to consider architectural issues such as materials enclosure interior versus exterior spaces form and function programmatic sequencing stability gravity light orientation and site 15