Name: 【TED】Xavier De Kestelier: Adventures of an interplanetary architect (Adventures of an interplanetary architect | Xavier De Kestelier)
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when my dad took me to an exhibition on space,

And the year was about -- I think it was 1988,

There was a bit of an upmanship going on between the Americans and the Russians

NASA brought a big blow-up space shuttle,

but the Russians, they brought a Mir space station.

and you could go inside and check it all out.

where the buttons were, where the wires were,

where the astronauts were eating, where they were working.

the first thing I did, I started drawing spaceships.

Now, these weren't science fiction spaceships, no.

of what kind of structure would be made out of,

where the wires were, where the screws were.

So fortunately, I didn't become a space engineer,

These are some of the projects that I've been involved with

All these projects are quite different, quite different shapes,

and it is because they are built for different environments.

And I think design becomes really interesting

Now, these projects have been all over the world.

A few years ago, this map wasn't good enough.

because we were going to do a project on the Moon

they asked us to design a Moon habitat --

a competition to look at a habitation on Mars.

you look at the local architecture, the precedents that are there.

Now, on the Moon, it's kind of difficult, of course,

So last that we went there, I wasn't even born yet,

and we only spent about three days there.

So for me, that's kind of a long camping trip, isn't it,

when you're going to build on another planet or a moon,

is how to get it there, how to get it there.

to get a kilogram, for example, to the Moon's surface,

is about four and a half meters by seven meters, not that much.

So it needs to be an architectural system

that is both compact, or compactable, and light,

specifically, when you go to a very harsh environment like the Moon.

The temperature difference on a Moon base

On one side of the base, it could be 100 degrees Celsius

and on the other side, it could be minus 100 degrees.

The Moon also does not have any magnetic fields,

which means that any radiation -- solar radiation, cosmic radiation --

We need to protect ourselves from that as well,

which means any meteorites coming into it will not get burned up,

Again, we need to protect the astronauts from that.

because a cave has a lot of mass, and we need mass.

We need mass to protect ourselves from the temperatures,

We have indeed the blue part, as you can see.

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【TED】Xavier De Kestelier: Adventures of an interplanetary architect (Adventures of an interplanetary architect | Xavier De Kestelier)

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