This paper presents the principle design of tensegami structure to provide an agricultural area on Mars. As the research about Mars exploration and habitation has become popular, several trials have been conducted to build habitats or agricultural space on Mars. However, transporting construction machines and materials from Earth to Mars is limited because of the spaceship's limited space. Moving materials needed to construct architectural structures from Mars to Earth requires lots of space and weight in the spacecraft. Current research suggests building space using 3D printing construction, which needs a heavy extra-large scale 3D printer. As a solution to this problem, we propose the novel design system—‘ tensegami’ which combines tensegrity and origami as a fundamental unit of agricultural structures. Tensegami uses rods as tension part and membrane components as compression parts. One agricultural space consists of multiple tensegami unit geometries.
Tensegami: Design Principle of Combining Tensegrity and Origami to Make Geodesic Dome Structure for Martian Agriculture
17th Biennial International Conference on Engineering, Science, Construction, and Operations in Challenging Environments ; 2021 ; Virtual Conference
Earth and Space 2021 ; 978-984
2021-04-15
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English