This chapter focuses on a selection of major overarching habitability issues which have been identified by experience and research to date. Each factor is discussed and commonalities and differences identified to enable both synergy and effective distinctions where needed. For each, we explain the underlying socio-spatial relationship (the context) with reference to latest research followed by examples from isolated and confined environments with possible solutions for each phenomenon.
Among the myriad future possible solutions, some will address multiple needs and not all solutions can be applied in all instances. In addition, while the exemplary design suggestions are based on current imminent or existing technology, with the rate of technological innovation and invention, some of these will have already matured into practice by the time this book is distributed and new possibilities will have emerged. This means that there is not just ONE possible solution to a problem, but a variety of possibilities. However, to use this large ‘pool of ideas’, mission planners, aerospace architects and designers have to understand the underlying human-spatial concepts, which are discussed for each habitability issue. Only then, will it be possible to come up with a solution that deserves the name habitability design solution. Habitability issues discussed in this chapter encompass the reciprocal conditions of the individual and small groups with mission and environmental characteristics (place and space), lengths (short- and long term), resources and human activities within an extraterrestrial habitat.
Looking Forward: How to Convert a Tin Can into a Home: Exploring Solutions to Selected Dimensions of (Socio-Spatial) Habitability
Spa. Soc.
2021-06-01
68 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch