Syllabus academic year 2007/2008
STUDIO: STAR DESIGNAAUF01

Higher education credits: 21. Grading scale: UG. Level: G2 (First level). Language of instruction: The course might be given in English. AAUF01 overlap following cours/es: AAU191 och AAU191. Alternative for: A3. Course coordinator: Assistant Professor Maria Nyström, Maria.Nystrom@arkitektur.lth.se, Inst för arkitektur och byggd miljö. The course might be cancelled if the numer of applicants is less than 10. The number of participants is limited to 20 Assessment: At least 80% attendance at lectures, seminars, exercises and reviews in class and on field study. The final presentation of project is to be in text, drawings, sketches and model (exhibition material). Emphasis is on the design process, the presentation and documentation of it. Further information: The course will next time be given springterm 2008.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents
S.T.A.R (Space and Terrestrial Architectural Research) Design started 1998 as a project in cooperation with NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, USA. It is a project in continuous development in which the thematic vary according to what field of work the focus of the collaborators is on at present. The studio emphasises the study of humans in space, i.e. human space flights, building and living in space on e.g. Mars or the Moon.

Human needs and the human dependency on the environment as surroundings and objects constitutes the foundation of the project. The project is divided up in three phases; 1) Humans in space. Prepearatory studies with general information, lectures and workshops. 2) Field trip to NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center i Houston Texas, USA. The students work with the human aspect of current issues in the space program for ISS, the return to the Moon, and Mars 3) Applications. The students construct their own final projects, individually or in group, and they may choose to apply their new knowledge of circumstances of life in space to a space project or to a situation of their choice on earth.

The project addresses issues like ergonomics and dimensioning, compact living, environmental psychology, culture and identity, material and construction, Life Support systems, human needs and every day problems in space, environment and ecology.

Literature
American Astronautical Society. Edited by Lane, Helen W., Sauer, Richard L., Feeback, Daniel L. Isolation. NASA Experiments in closed environment living. Advanced Human Life Support Enclosed System Final Report. Science and Technology Series. Volume 104, 2002
Bell, Paul A. Environmental Psychology (5th ed.), Harcourt Brace College, 2000
Bernsen, J. Design'et för design'et, Köpenhamn, 1996
Gall, Sarah L., Pramberger, Joseph T. NASA Spinoffs. Thirty year commemorative edition, 1992
Lawson, B. How Designers Think, Oxford, 1997
Nyström, M., Reuterswärd, L: Mot Mars för att återvinna Jorden/Meeting Mars Recycling Earth, Svensk Byggtjänst, 2003
Zubrin, R. The Case for Mars, New York, 1997
STAR Design, projects and diplomaworks 2000, 2001, 2002, Ark3, LTH