Fall 2025: Sep.17 - Nov.19
Application Deadline: Sep.8
Weeks 1-2 Observe & ResearchStudio orientation, curated resource library, 1st assignment, and introductory lectures. You will become familiar with the Space environment, research your potential sites and their possibilities. Lectrures cover history, theory, and design landmarks of human spaceflight.
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Weeks 3-4 Orient & Define With guidance from your mentor and discussion with peers, you will converge on your site, program, and most important design questions. You’ll define your project's need statement and test approaches.
End of Week 4 Keynote A lecture and AMA with an industry expert.
Weeks 5-7
Decide & Design You’ll develop your physical design. This period is driven by design critiques with your mentor. You will have a 1:1 with a guest mentor and present your progress to an panel with expertise in spacecraft systems and their operation.
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Weeks 8-9Act & PresentYou’ll turn your focus to how you want to explain and represent your original project. You’ll produce portfolio-quality deliverables within your technical abilities and recieve presentation coaching.
End of Week 9
Final ReviewThe studio concludes with presentations to a panel of industry professionals including practicing Space architects and industrial designers, aerospace engineers, mission planners, and researchers.
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Session Scheduling
Flexible DeskcritsTwo days per week will be available as flex time for 1:1 deskcrits between mentor and student. Each week, you’ll decide the time based on your schedule and seamlessly book online.
Group PinupOnce per week, at a set time that everyone can attend, we organize and present our work to our peers. You’ll have the opportunity to comment on your peers work in a constructive manner and learn through them.
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What You Need to Bring
Time Commitment To get the most out of the studio, about 8 hrs/week of project work outside of hosted sessions is recommended. In general, you get out what you put in.
Design ToolsProficiency in at least one 3D design tool is required. Students are free to use the tools they prefer or already know, so long as they can make dimensioned 3D designs and make spatial images and line drawings from them. Students are encouraged to use Rhino3D, a powerful yet accessible CAD program, as their core tool. Rhino3D offers a fully-functional, free 90-day trial which will cover the duration of the course. Software tutoring will not be provided.
Duration
9 weeks
Fee
1,450 USD
affiliations & contributions noted.
1. Artificial gravity Space station concept sketch
2. Concept for a gravity gradient-stabilized Space station
3. Intermodal biological research station
4. Space station volumetric occupancy analysis
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