Border Sessions 2019: Extra Terrestrial Architecture with Xavier De Kestelier

Border Sessions 2019: Extra Terrestrial Architecture with Xavier De Kestelier

Festival Night Session with Xavier De Kestelier 

Thursday, June 13 

Xavier De Kestelier is Head of Design Technology and Innovation at international design practice HASSELL. He is an industry leader in the field of parametric design, digital fabrication and additive manufacturing. In recent years, Xavier has built up a portfolio of space related architecture for clients such as NASA, ESA and Virgin Galactic. During the Border Sessions Festival Night he dive into inhabiting Mars, which will probably be one the most technically complex endeavours humans will do. Although this quest might be a huge engineering challenge, Xavier De Kestelier thinks that designers will be essential to this. Read more...

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Inhabiting Mars will probably be one the most technically complex endeavours humans will do. Although this quest might be a huge engineering challenge, Xavier De Kestelier thinks that designers will be essential to this.

The HASSELL design proposal for the 3D Printed Habitat for NASA’s Centennial Challenge is a perfect example of this. HASSELL sought perspectives from outside the traditional aerospace industry to explore how a human habitat could be designed and delivered on Mars using autonomous 3D printing technologies. HASSELL partnered with Eckersley O’Callaghan to design the external shell, which could be entirely constructed by autonomous robots using Mars’ natural regolith.

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