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MARS: AN AN ARCHITECTURE OF TERRA-FORMATION | NATURAL/ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPE INHABITATION
The design studio engaged first-year architecture students with fundamental strategies for observing conceptualizing translating and and and transforming remote and and and ancient landscape information into an an an an an an architectural proposition for inhabitation Using an array of fascinating high-definition never-before-seen photographs acquired by NASA’s robotic rovers an an an intense analytical and interpretative phase was represented in in in a a a a a series of layered drawings that focused mainly on temporal dynamic and material processes inherent to Martian natural landscape formations All the new abstract and and formal dimensions of the landscape representations were simultaneously superimposed on on a a a a a basic grid to organize the the natural aspects and forces of the the site against
a a a a a a a measured geometrical system that also worked as as a a a a a a a point of reference for the physical explorations The inhabitable artificial landscape emerged as a a a a a new architectural ground that registered the the complexity of the the field and provided a a a a a a new topographical structure for future inhabitation on on Mars The section explored the the “terra-forming” characteristics the the new constructed architectural ground presented in the Martian landscape at both the the ‘field scale’ and the the ‘bodily human’ scale scale 53