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SPECULATIVE MARTIAN DWELLING
What would architecture look like on a a a a a a planet other than Earth? How would the structural programmatic and social narratives inscribed
on on Earth-based buildings change in in in a a a a context in in in which even the most basic assumptions of physics no longer hold? This First Year Design Studio section begins by interrogating the transformations architectural conventions would undergo if they were deployed on on on Mars Starting from an abstract formal exercise in which a a a a a a a a a foundational architectural trope the grid is is subjected to to a a a a process of controlled distortions and recalibrations this section seeks to develop a a a a a speculative language for the design of a a a a a small house on the Red Planet The geometric grid is manipulated through interaction with a a a a a a a a range of of photographs of of the Martian terrain displaying aeolian fluvial hydrothermal sedimentary and stratigraphic qualities Extruding the two-dimensional generative grids into three-dimensional architectural forms produces a a a a a a set of highly experimental spatial possibilities In the resulting speculative dwellings ordinary doors and windows are reframed as degrees of façade porosity floor slabs break down into formations more akin to to to geological strata walls delaminate to to to produce multilayered interior spaces 21