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MARTIAN SERIES: SURVIVE & EXPANDMicro Library Books Martian Series explores how our earthly ideas of design, language and imagination are not yet fit for purpose for a planet at once familiar and distinct from our own.
Survive & Expand, the second in the series, puts forward a blueprint of ideas for terraforming, overcoming initial survival challenges and a plan in case of failure. Product details for Arrive & Explore:
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Speculative Habitations
The essential elements needed for human survival are the same on Mars as on earth: water, food and shelter must be found or made if we are to exist in a new world. Our concept here is to focus on designing shelter. The need to make Mars habitable in order to evolve an initial ‘Mars colony’ presents a new realm of architectural possibility. The architecture of mars may be formed of different approaches: buildings imported from earth and set down on Mars; re-design and re-engineering of our current houses to make them suitable for the red planet; and wholly new creations. Melding the approaches together, we can speculatively conjure artists impressions of the individual buildings that will harbour us initially (and eventually become homes) as well as the series of these structures together that will come to be recognised as Martian towns and cities.
The essential elements needed for human survival are the same on Mars as on earth: water, food and shelter must be found or made if we are to exist in a new world. Our concept here is to focus on designing shelter. The need to make Mars habitable in order to evolve an initial ‘Mars colony’ presents a new realm of architectural possibility. The architecture of mars may be formed of different approaches: buildings imported from earth and set down on Mars; re-design and re-engineering of our current houses to make them suitable for the red planet; and wholly new creations. Melding the approaches together, we can speculatively conjure artists impressions of the individual buildings that will harbour us initially (and eventually become homes) as well as the series of these structures together that will come to be recognised as Martian towns and cities.
Other books in the Martian Series:
ARRIVE & EXPLORE
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THRIVE EXPLOIT
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