Exodus

Studio Pierandrea Angius

Tutors Tina Tsagkaratou, Angel Tenorio

Team Xiangyu Zhai, Yuqi Xia, Yihan Shi, Yizhou Luo, Jiang Zhao

This project aims to research and design a population structure composed of variable units that can constantly change in response to internal and external changes. This structure can be used as a basic human survival unit in specific extreme environments, providing architectural support for interstellar investigations.  

The monomer establishes the relationship between the daily or non-daily behaviors and activities and the minimal space under the condition of low or zero gravity. In this process, the inherent structural variability is challenged to cope with the dynamic conditions of the external environment and the changeable requirements of the internal space. Life can be divided into three levels based on the degree of urgency and human needs. With any change of these levels, the internal space of each monomer becomes larger and through deformation and mobility, the monomers address these transformations.  

To define this monomer, we designed a spherical capsule with rigid structure and shell. The shell, as a protective layer, shields the structure from any collision and radiation. The rod body and the iris structure in the middle provide important mobility functions for the monomers, such as opening and closing, and moving. Inside the monomer, the membrane structure consists of an auxetic surface, an inflatable bubble membrane and so on. The auxetic surface combines a certain degree of stiffness while being soft through its own buckle structure and the Inflatable membrane is an important tool to generate minimal space under different conditions through its flexible nature.