New Website
Please take a look at a website that I have been putting together: Off-World Architecture. The term is borrowed from an advertisement playing in the background in the movie Blade Runner. I have been working on the HTML and CSS off-and-on, fixing mistakes, trying to maintain a clean, contemporary image.
This is a portfolio of work, after all. The intention the site is to demonstrate what I and others from the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture have done. We have the skills necessary to create an architecture for building typologies that do not yet have one.
We have a way of thinking, a systems-of-systems approach. Integrating the necessary engineering requirements into a deliverable product ("the pressurized capsule"), and including in those requirements, human factors and social-psychological concerns. This is not "architects/architecture in space", this is "architecture about/with-respect-to space". This is about making living areas in space less of a laboratory environment, and more like home.
This is a portfolio of work, after all. The intention the site is to demonstrate what I and others from the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture have done. We have the skills necessary to create an architecture for building typologies that do not yet have one.
We have a way of thinking, a systems-of-systems approach. Integrating the necessary engineering requirements into a deliverable product ("the pressurized capsule"), and including in those requirements, human factors and social-psychological concerns. This is not "architects/architecture in space", this is "architecture about/with-respect-to space". This is about making living areas in space less of a laboratory environment, and more like home.
posted by Christopher Loyd @ 1:24 PM
2 Comments:
At 5:05 AM, May 22, 2008,
Matt Whyndham said…
Interesting, though I find the distinction you make unclear:
This is not "architects/architecture in space", this is "architecture about/with-respect-to space".
Please could you re-iterate the scope of what you are trying to do, in terms that a Systems Engineer might recognise.
I've also glanced at the new site, though I'm none the wiser.
At 12:52 PM, May 24, 2008,
Christopher Loyd said…
Please could you re-iterate the scope of what you are trying to do, in terms that a Systems Engineer might recognise.
Sure! I am not looking to be famous like Frank Gehry, or do landmark architecture like the Bilbao Museum. What I want to do is use the skills, mindset, and interests cultivated at my school to create buildings that actually work. What I mean by work is improve the status quo of the "project" or "goal", ranging from "settle Mars" or "manage the City during a Category 5 hurricane" down to "maintain sanity" or "file the TPS reports more efficiently whilst maintaining sanity".
The extreme environments that I wish to engage in is more than just space, it's situations. This is a field that I can affect literal constructive change in.
I hope that helped. Let me know otherwise :-).
By the way, how did you find this and my other blog?
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