Synthesis International
Background: Cesar Pelli and Associates 1988-1989, Kenzo Tange Associates, Tokyo Japan 1990-1992, Suter + Suter GmbH, Berlin, Germany 1992-1994, synthesis Int’l 1994-1997, Lockheed Martin at NASA Johnson Space Center 1997- present. Adjunct professor and various invited lectures 1997-present. Work includes ISS Crew Systems configuration, BIO-Plex Hab Element design, ISS TransHab design, Crew Transfer Vehicle (CTV), Second-Generation Reusable Launch Vehicle (2GRLV), and other aerospace / architecture related projects.
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Institute of Space Sciences and Astronautics, Sagamihara Field Center
Turkish representative in the astronaut training program
Background: 1997 Intern at European Space Agency, 1999 Associative Architect at Kajima Corporation, 2000 Research Associate at Shimizu Corporation, 2001-2003 Muses-C Mission Design Group Member, 12 international awards in international competitions including Mediapark Cologne and Auerbach Airport Design in Germany. Research Interest in High-tech architecture, technology transfer between terrestrial and space architecture, hyperspace.
Background: Senior research architect at SICSA, University of Houston (2002 – current), project architect (Lockwood Greene Int.), senior architect (CODEST International). Projects include: architectural practice (office buildings) in Russia; USA: Artificial gravity habitats, Space Shuttle Orbiter passenger transfer accommodations, Mars surface ascent vehicles and Earth return vehicles, Mars settlement, Lunar base, Extreme environment architecture (Greenland Science Summit Station).
Background: Intern Architect, Envision Architects, Albany, NY. 2003-Present. Student Intern, Envision Architects, 2001-2003. Currently enrolled in Intern Development Program and working towards architectural licensure.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Hugh Broughton Architects
Background: Registered architect with the UK Architects Registration Board. 4 years practice with Troughton McAslan Architects in London. 1 year research project with YRM Architects in Spain. Author of Madrid: a guide to recent architecture (Konemann, 1995) and London: Light and Space (Ellipsis, 1996). Regular contributor to architectural magazines with articles on Spanish architecture (1994 – 1997). 1995, established Hugh Broughton Architects, London. Practice has won two RIBA Awards for Architecture, two Civic Trust Awards and one International Property Federation Award. 2004, winner RIBA International Competition for the design of Halley VI Antarctic Research Station for the British Antarctic Survey. 2007, winner International competition for the design of the Spanish Antarctic Base Juan Carlos I for the Unidad Tecnologia Maritima. Papers presented on human factors and design in remote regions at Space 2006, San Jose and ICES 2007, Chicago. Assessor, UK Civic Trust Awards.
Background: 2007-Present: Project Lead, Lockheed Martin CEV Program. 2005-2007: Aerospace Architect, Bigelow Aerospace Inc. 2004: Faculty Associate, Arizona State University College of Design. 2001: Registered Architect, State of New York. Currently project lead for IVA Crew Aids for the CEV program. Responsible for IVA hardware including restraints and mobility aids, hygiene station, and sleep accommodations. Projects in private aerospace industry included space vehicle layout, flight crew system development, lead for payload development and integration, and successful launch and operation of 2 inflatable modules. Six years of architectural practice in New York, N.Y. Received grants for travel research in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Asia.
NASA - Ames Research Center
Background: Licensed Architect. NASA Ames Facilities Engineering, 1979-1983. NASA-Ames Space Human Factors Office/Space Station Program, 1983-1990, Adv. Space Technology Office 1991-1994, Advanced Space Projects Branch 1995-present, Mars Exploration Programs 1991-7, SOFIA Project 1994-1998, Mars Astrobiology Technology Initiative, 1999-2000, Mars Returned Sample Handling/Planetary Protection 2001-2002, "Habot" Mobile Lunar Base Project 2003-present. NASA Space Architect Team 2004.
NASA - Ames Research Center
Background: NASA-Ames Research Center researcher in Closed Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) and Artificial Intelligence. Past work includes Astronaut Science Advisor (a.k.a. PI-in-a-box). Recent work includes "Evolutionary Biotronics", comprising projects in Evolutionary Hardware, Modular Cooperative Robotics and Artificial Life, and a workshop on Self-Sustaining Robotic Ecologies called "Robosphere 2002". Other work includes an eight-legged "scorpion" robot as a potential adjunct to a rover for planetary exploration. Space Architecture interests include self-deploying robotic structures.
www.spaceseeds.com
Background: Alsop Architects, London (2001 – present), director of Alsop Architects, currently heads up their Shanghai Office. Overseeing design of Shanghai’s New International Cruise Terminal, under construction, and urban master planning in Shanghai, TianJin, Ningbo, Suzhou, Shenzhen, PRC. Completed projects with Alsop include Queen Mary Medical Science Research Center, London (RIBA International Award). Shepheard Epstein Hunter, London (1994 – 2001), associate for urban planning. Konrad Mockel Architect, Berlin (1992). Co-founder of Spaceseeds with Carl Harding and Eileen Gibson, exploring concepts for space urbanism.
Politecnico of Milan
Background: Licenced Architect and Industrial Designer, 1991. Professor and researcher at the III Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Politecnico of Milan, 2001- present. Head of Research Programs of SpaceLab, the space research laboratory of industrial design at the Politecnico of Milan, 1998 – present. ASI, Italian Space Agency, VEST Feasibility Study and Orbit Experiment, AGILE Feasibility Study, Abitabilità ISS Program, 2000 – present, ESA, European Space Agency, MEEMM Design Study, 2001-present.
California Polytechnic State University, Department of Architecture
Background: Registered architect in Texas, 1973. Architectural Programmer for Caudill Rowlett Scott (1972 - 1974). Architectural Programmer for University of Houston (1975 - 1977). Author: Architectural Programming, Information Management for Design, Wiley, 1993. Author: Aerospace Architecture Curriculum, NASA contractor report, 2004. Current Professor, California Polytechnic State University, Department of Architecture, from 1981.
Lisbon Technical University Faculty of Architecture
Background: Professor of the Dep. Architecture ( 2001-p.), Head and prof. of the Master Course in Colour in Architecture (2002-p.) of the Faculty of Architecture, Lisbon Technical University. Academic activities include post-graduate supervision and professorship in Master Degree in Museology, Lusofona University (2000); MSc in Built Environment Evaluation for Sustainability, University of Salford (2001); MA in Design, FA-LTU (2002-p). Assistant prof., vice director of Diploma (5yrs) in Product and Space Design, Communication Design (Lusofona University, Lisbon, 1998-2000); vice-director of BA(3yrs) in Graphic, Product and Interior Design (Superior Institute of Humanities and Technologies, Lisbon, 1994-1998). Research: coordinator of the projects developed within the ColourLab of the Faculty of Architecture. Vice-President for Portugal of the International Association of Colour Consultants/Designers (2003). President of The Portuguese Colour Association (2005).
Background: 2005-2006, assistant professor (part time), Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong. 1994-2004, research officer, Department of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1980-1994, systems research programmer, Architecture and Planning Research Laboratory, University of Michigan. 1978-1979, architectural apprentice, Artur I. Losse, Architect, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Research includes: software development for computer-aided architectural design, scientific visualization, and virtual reality; and the architecture of artificial-gravity environments for long-duration space habitation.
Umbilical design, Stockholm, Sweden
Background: 2001 – present, Founder and Managing Director umbilical design AB. Currently working with space technology transfer projects and interior design for a Parabolic Flight plane for tourists. Cooperation with NASA, JSC/Lund University/ESA, 1999 – present. The most extensive project has been, Master Thesis: Crew Return Vehicle Interior Layout – a proposal for space vehicle interior design and layout. Various exhibitions, nominations and invited lectures in Europe and the US.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Plug-in Creations Architecture, LLC
Background: Registered architect NCARB, California, Oregon. Five years WLC Architects in Rancho Cucamonga, CA. Ten year practice with Kajima Corporation in Tokyo, Japan. Three years assistant professor University of Oregon, Six years assistant professor at Hong Kong University. President, Plug-In Creations Architecture, LLC since 1998. 2006-07 Consulting Research Scientist for Carnegie Mellon Innovations Laboratory. Current: Senior Systems Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Team member on Constellation CxAT Lunar mobility and habitat teams. Research includes design for autonomous surface construction, robotic construction systems, design grammars, digital representation, deployable structures, and kit-of-parts building systems.
Liquifer architectural office
Background: Licensed architect. 1997 internship as architect for BIOPLEX project, NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, 1997 - 2003 ESCAPE*spHERE (Barbara Imhof, Sandrine von Klot, Birgit Trenkwalder) Co-Founder, architectural firm, Vienna, Austria, www.escapesphere.at, since 1998 assistant to Architect, Prof. Helmut Richter, University of Technology, Vienna, Institute for Design and Building Construction (HB 2). Founder and principal of LIQUIFER 2003.
Background: under construction
Background: Registered for architectural design, for urban design in Finland. Consultant for corporate strategy and design management. Several prizes and honorary mentions in architecture, urban design, and public art competitions. Lecturer and design studio tutor. Research interest in architecture and new technologies, augmented reality using lidar and real world terrain models. IAF International Program Committee, Education, and Space and Society Administrative Committee member. UN World Space Week coordinator for Finland. Vice president, Finnish Astronautical Society(IAF). Architect SAFA/UIA. Sculptor SKL/AIAP.
Background: Currently deployed with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Seventeen (Seabees) in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as a Civil Engineer Corps Officer. Mark has worked as; an ECLSS Engineer at Bigelow Aerospace, North Las Vegas, Nevada; an Intern Architect with SMPC Architects, Albuquerque, New Mexico; a Research Technician in Pulmonary Physiology (Swenson/Deem Pulmonary Lab) at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and as Hyperbaric Technician at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, WA. He spent two summers at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, 1994-96.
Background: under construction
Background: Private architectural practice since 1997, preceded by design work in Australia, Paris, and Texas. Former Lecturer, School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin. Current research topics include Rn-222 effects from lunar regolith concrete; design of self-deployed inflatable photovoltaic modules fro extraplanetary environments; habitat counter-measures against ultrafine regolith particles.
Background: Licensed Architect, State of Washington. Commercial architecture (6) years experience, The Roybal Corporation, Richey & Lancashire, JPC Corporation. Archival Assistant (1 1/2 years) Richard Meier & Partners, NASA KC-135 Micro-Gravity Flight Test Subject for experiment on Torsional Nystagmus. Staff/Department Assistant for Space Architecture and Systems Architecture & Mission Design departments, (3) ISU Summer Session Programs. Research projects include International Asteroid Mission (International Space University), Manned Mars Mission (U. of Houston USRA program in conjunction with NASA JSC).
Hernandez Calhoun Design International
Nexterra, Inc.
Background: Master plan designer for the new U.S. Army 7th Special Forces Group base near Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 2007-08. Project Management, design and construction administration on 70+ projects in the U.S., Canada and Central America. Consultant to Gala Film Montreal and Discovery Canada for design of transit and surface habitats for the docudrama “Race to Mars,” 2004-2006. Winner 2003 Webby Award in the science category (with other members of Nexterra, Inc.) for the exploremarsnow.org website. Designer and program manager Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station, 1998-2000. First place winner Antarctic High Station design competition sponsored by NSF and AIAS, 1993. Service as a U.S. Navy Intelligence officer 1981-1993.
MoonFront (USA), LIQUIFER (Austria)
Background: Space entrepreneur 2000-present: co-Founded San Francisco based aerospace consultancy - MoonFront LLC (www.moonfront.com) in 2001, and Vienna based aerospace architecture and design firm - LIQUIFER (www.liquifer.at) in 2003. Consult to a diverse portfolio of projects in USA, Europe, and India involving NASA, ESA, ASA, ISRO and others. Previously worked at: The Boeing Company 1998-2000, NASA Johnson Space Center 1996-1997.
Astronautics and Space Technology Division (ASTD)
University of Southern California
Background: Currently serving office as Business Operations Manager for Project LEAPFROG (Lunar Entry and Approach Platform for Research On-Ground) at USC-ISI, Collaborating Researcher with Dr.Vyacheslav A.Shurshakov, Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), State Research Center, Moscow, Russia, Interned with Dr.Andreas Vogler and Dr.Arturo Vittori (worked on Mars Cruiser One and Moon Base), Licensed Architect- Affiliation from Council of Architecture (COA) and Indian Institute of Architects (IIA), India, Worked as Architect at Synergy, Bangalore, India, Intern Project Engineer - Larsen and Toubro, Bangalore, India. Research Interests include Human Factors, Systems Architecture, Man-Systems Integration, Cognitive Sciences, Space Architecture.
Astrocourier
Background: Working in the aerospace field since 1985. Projects have included: design research and development work on crew quarters for the International Space station for NASA; prototype crew equipment development for NASA and Spacehab; external tank salvage refitting studies for Global Outpost; commercial hardware applications studies for British Aerospace and Alenia Spazio; spaceport and flight test facility planning for Kistler Aerospace Corp.; master plan for 10-year expansion for the Deep Space Network for JPL; X-33 ground facilities studies for McDonnell Douglas; ship launch feasibility study and rocket assemble building complex design for Rotary Rocket Company. Recently Founder and CEO of ASTROCOURIER LLC.
Shimizu Corporation
Background: Registered architect in Japan, 1982. 1981-1998 Shimizu Corporation, Design Division. 1990- Shimizu Corporation, Space Project Office. 1996-1999 National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), Manipulator Flight Demonstration (MFD) Project, MFD chief for Space Shuttle STS-85 mission. NASDA ground operations for Space Shuttle STS-95 mission. NASDA Centrifuge Development Team Leader for ISS Centrifuge Accommodation Module (CAM). 1999-present, Shimizu Corporation, Institute of Technology, Facility Engineering Group/Space Systems Group.
Background: Currently working towards licensure in architecture and structural engineering at Laguarda.Low Architects. Professional experience includes engineering work at the structures group at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he worked on highrises and specialty glass and steel structures. Space related projects include design of surface inflatables and masonry construction under space simulation at MDRS. Lead architect on the MarsHome project of the Mars Foundation.
University of Houston
Background: Licensed Architect (2001). Designer of components for high-rise building external envelopes on two projects of Cesar Pelli (2001-2002). Space-related projects include interior design, vehicle design and inflatable structures for micro- and artificial gravity environments. Related interest: spinoffs from space technology to buildings.
Background: under construction
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Background: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Systems and Software Division, Assistant Division Manager for Mission Concept Development, and Manager of Opportunity Development), 2005-present; Boeing Company, (Program Manager Exploration Robotic Systems; Director of Business Development for Space Science and International Space Station; management and technical positions in commercial LEO development, space transportation architectures, Sea Launch, Space Station pressurized module manufacturing, and human planetary exploration advanced concepts), 1988-2005. Developed manufacturing method for integrating distributed systems into Space Station pressurized modules. Led configuration design of multiple lunar and Mars mission systems for Space Exploration Initiative. Over 25 publications in space exploration, space development, and space architecture. Design faculty, International Space University, 1992. Area of particular interest is space urbanism.
Claudio Veliz Architect (CV A)
Background: Registered Architect. Designer with Sir Roy Grounds, Melbourne, Australia, 1977-78; Designer, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Assoc, Architects, 1980-82; founded “Claudio Veliz Design”, 1982-1986; “Claudio Veliz Architect”, 1986-present. Informal consultation to NASA Ames Research Ctr. (with Marc Cohen) on alternate section designs for work stations and habitat interior local vertical strategies, 1987-1990, various. International Space Architecture. Member, NASA / JSC Man-Systems Integration Standards Advisory Group, precursor design guidelines for workstation / crew habitat module, International Space Station, various: 1988-1991. Taught undergraduate astrophysics at Columbia University, Department of Astronomy, 1991-1995; hosted public observing Program under Prof. Joseph Patterson, Columbia University, Dept. of Astro., 1991-1995.
Architecture and Vision
Background: Registered architect with 9 years professional experience in international practices (France, Germany, UK). Manager Jetliner Cabin Design for Airbus, Toulouse (2001-2003). Co-Founded practice Architecture and Vision (2003). Space related project involvement: Moon Base of first generation, ISS Embassy, Mars Rover, Design for Extreme Environments.
Architecture and Vision
Background: registered architect. 2 years practice with Richard Horden Assoc., London. 6 years assistant professor at Institute of Architecture and Product Development, Univ. Prof. Richard Horden University of Technology Munich. Micro Architecture and Space Architecture Education programs with parabolic test flights at NASA-JSC Houston. Co-Founded the company Architecture and Vision with Arturo Vittori, which is specializing on the Technology Transfer from Space into terrestrial architecture and vice versa. Inflatable Study for ESA.
MOTHER
Background: Master thesis in cooperation with ESA / ESTEC: interior design of Crew Return Vehicle, private design office since 1999, 6 month independent research office at the Danish National Space Center, habitat workshop at ESA, Mars Desert Research Station Crew 32, Phase 2 lunar lander study at NASA, Johnson Space Center. Research includes habitability design, dust problems in Mars habitats with adhesion to EVA suit materials, astronaut's safety concepts, In-situ resource utilization concepts. Current: Subcontractor for NASA, Johnson Space Center through WYLE.
Background: to become registered architect in autumn 2006. Currently full time practice in Proctor and Matthews Architects, London. Space related project involved interior design for microgravity environment, and AIAA paper on the relationship between space and terrestrial architecture.