MARSHA
A NASA WINNING DESIGN FOR MARS
Marsha is a first-principles rethinking of what a Martian habitat could be. Marsha made us to rethink habitat design by responding to a completely different set of questions. Designing for Mars!
It is born of a careful response to the Martian environment and a synergy between architectural, structural and construction principles with the crew’s experience at the center.
Besides designing and modeling, I led the official multimedia submission to NASA and created the conceptual 3D printing construction animation.
Marsha is a first-principles rethinking of what a Martian habitat could be. Marsha made us to rethink habitat design by responding to a completely different set of questions. Designing for Mars!
It is born of a careful response to the Martian environment and a synergy between architectural, structural and construction principles with the crew’s experience at the center.
Marsha won the Nasa 3D printed habitat challenge Design Phase 1 in 2018
Besides designing and modeling, I led the official multimedia submission to NASA and created the conceptual 3D printing construction animation.
The first task for any Martian home is to hold an Earth-like atmosphere. A simple trade study of spatial and material efficiency shows that a vertically oriented cylinder is the best formal basis for a surface habitat.
The layout must reflect the strict flow of tasks typical of Space missions. But since sustained social and mental health are also mission critical, habitats should offer elements of surprise and literal room for the crew to slip outside of an overly prescriptive existence.
In this alien environment, construction sequence and materials must be rethought entirely.
On May 4th, after three phases and $1.6 million awarded the team participated in the Nasa Challenge at Caterpillar’s demonstration facility in Peoria, IL on 2019
Team AI SpaceFactory won the grand prize of $500,000 by successfully printing a 1:3 scale prototype of the primary structure
Design Phase 1:
Jeffrey Montes
Sima Shahverdi
David Malott
Tony Jin
Construction Phase 1&2:
Jeffrey Montes
Christopher James Botham
David Malott
Construction Phase 3:
Jeffrey Montes
Christopher James Botham
David Riedel
James Earle
James Coleman
Amit Adhikaree
with AI Space Factory
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