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AAVS Mars
Vernacular Settlements
Workshop | AAVS

Type

Space Architecture

Location

Martian Cliffs

Year

2021

Sector

Speculative Urbanism

Design

Prasad G K S

Instructor

Levent Ozruh

Bartlett, Hassell

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This design is a product of a three-day workshop organized by the AA Visiting School Los Angeles in 2021 led by Levent Ozruh. Procedures for the Martian Vernacular investigated vernacular architecture for future human settlements on Mars at the village scale. HoudiniFx was used as the main tool to test the limits of formal differentiation for the foundations of Martian vernacular architecture that responds to local materiality as well as the extremity of the planet's environment. The main goal was to speculate a vernacular through procedural and rule-based systems that respond to specific site conditions. The result is a system of intelligence that offers spatial complexities from agent-based robotic construction overseen by architects. 

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