Today, I and Sunny made a model for dome with existing designs. We used rods and vinyl as materials of dome. Also, we try to find how to converge origami with tensegrity structure. 2019.10.07 How to make tensegrity dome for agriculture on Mars? – Make a model. 더보기

We choose design concepts of our dome as a following picture below. Our model would be installed on the backyard of C5, around 5 -10 meter size. So today, I draw some sketches for structure and practice some tools of Rhino3D. These are the results from today’s tutorial. And these are my drawings of the tensegrity dome. 2019.09.10 How to use Rhino 3D to build 3D modeling of tensegrity dome? – Tutorial 더보기

As I researched yesterday, I want to update lists for design concepts of tensegrity dome. The lists below is a reference image, so I have to develop my own design. Spatial Efficiency 2. Like a Star 3. From a conventional design, stair concept 3. Bent rods dome design 4. Membrane Tensegrity Design Like this picture, the tensegrity domes with would be also available to fold. 5. Special Rods Design As a picture above, use special designed rods as a tensegrity dome. Also, using purple LED, the dome would be like a secret space on Mars. 6. 2019.09.10 What is the best design concept for greenhouse on Mars? 더보기

‘As you already expected, the answer is no. The rods could be shaped as triangles, hexagons, stick, or x. Due to the diversity of shape of rods, the dome design could be more complicated. According to the article, there are advantages of over conventional structures a) As the load is distributed in whole are no critical points of weakness [16]. b) They don’t suffer any kind of torsion and buckling due to space arrangement and short of compression members [1]. c) Forces are transferred naturally and consequently, the members position themselves precisely by aligning with the lines of forces transmitted … 2019.09.09 Does rods for tensegrity has to be a stick? 더보기

I have to write a conference paper on ASCE Earth & Space Conference in 2020 held in Seattle. The section is about architecture on the moon and the mars : designing for human space exploration. Details are as follows. Architecture on the Moon and Mars: Designing for Human Space Exploration Session Organizer(s): Valentina Sumini, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (E-mail; ) and Ju hong Park, Ph.D., POSTECH, Pohang, Korea (E-mail: juhpark@postech.ac.kr) Considering the renewed interest by ESA and NASA in planning a manned mission respectively to the Moon and Mars by the next few decades and allowing … 2019.09.09 What are aspects of designing our own design of the greenhouse on Mars? 더보기

I did a research about the tensegrity dome. Then, now I become curious about existing design concepts of greenhouse on Mars. I want to introduce some projects proposed to NASA as a solution of agriculture on Mars. Cultivated area for food production: 60 to 90 m^2 per resident. Above table represents a recap of raw materials for building habitats. Reference : https://planete-mars.com/martian-habitats-molehills-or-glass-houses/#_ftn3 2019.09.09 How about traditional greenhouse designs on Mars? 더보기

I want to introduce a research about making tensegrity dome models as a form of external rings free of any interior support. Paper : Diana Maritza PEÑA1*, Dr. Ignasi LLORENS2, Dr. Ramon SATRE3, Dr. Daniel CRESPO4, Prof. Joshua MARTINEZ5(2010), Formfinding and structural analysis of a tensegrity dome, Doctrate Student UPC In this paper, authors present a way to build a tensegrity dome without interior support, which is useful for designing large open spaces such as sports arenas. This structure is built by formfinding a double-layered diamond-membrane pattern finding its equilibrium itself in tensile architecture. The most interesting parts of this … 2019.09.09 What are other researches about a tensegrity dome? 더보기

Before writing a skeletal paper about agricultural tensegrity structure on Mars, I have to study tensegrity dome first. According to the ‘A practial guide to tensegrity design’, a tensegrity system is composed of a set of discontinuous compressive elements with a set of continuous tensile components such as cables and rods. This tensile structure aims to define a stable volume in space. Also, tensegrity is like a balloon’s skin since the balloon distribute force throughout the structure. The best parts of tensegrity design is about efficiency. Due to features of tensegrity, materials to make a structure become more economical than … 2019.09.07 What is Tensegrity Dome? 더보기

Univeristy of Arizona and NASA built multicrop Lunar greenhouse prototype. This LGH(Lunar Greenhouse) system consists of four cylindrical-shaped independent plant growing chambers. A single unit chamber’s diameter is 2.1m and 5.5m in length, consist of aluminium frame and thin film surface cover(F-Clean ETFE, AGC Inc, Japan). LGH has a system for hydrophonic and lighting systems, and provides 19m^-3 and 11.1 m^2 of interior chamber volumes for a single growing system. Lighting system is 1000W HPS water-jacketed lamps made by the Sadler Machine Company. There are three layers of modules in the greenhouse, which are cables, floor, and walls. The greenhouse … 2019.09.06 What is benefit of tensegrity dome compared to inflatable original greenhouse? 더보기

As a dome design on Mars, I keep researching about shape of greenhouse on Mars. Traditional design made by NASA was folded circular design. How about design with wood? Since planting means growing plants on Earth. So how about building greenhouse with green material such as wood?Reference : https://www.oliverdavidkrieg.com/?p=987 How about wood rod with PVC roof? 2019.09.06 Does Digital Fabrication include wood designs? 더보기