Like a form of programmatic alchemy, we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naГЇve utopian ideas of digital formalism. We believe that in order to deal with todayвЂ™s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies, that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. BIGвЂ™s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. With The Metals Company, we are designing a human made ecosystem channeling the flow of resources with the care and attention conventionally reserved for the front of house.В A next-generation materials industry,вЂќ said Bjarke Ingels.В If the ongoing research and studies conclude that harvesting minerals from the seabed can be done in an environmentally and socially responsible way, we will not only be able to accelerate the green transition but give form to an entirely new industry that will create a sustainable circular metals economy for future generations.Д«IG is a Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. The front of house is carefully designed in the form of beautiful facades and lush parks, leaving the back of house as purely utilitarian and logistical leftovers in the form of parking lots and warehouses. вЂњThe world is characterized by a mindset that divides the world into front of house and back of house. To find a sustainable alternative, the BIG-designed fleet of robotic vessels will responsibly harvest precious metals from nodules 2.5 miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, which are necessary for the production of electric cars and their batteries. The metals required for the green transition to those renewable sources take a detrimental toll on the environment. The global energy system needs to undergo its most profound change in centuries to realize a world run exclusively on renewable sources. Mars Dune Alpha will take us one step closer to becoming a multiplanetary species.вЂќ вЂњThe data gained from this habitat research will directly inform NASAвЂ™s standards for long-duration exploration missions, and as such will potentially lay the foundation for a new Martian vernacular. The 1,700 square-foot structure, located at Johnson Space Center in Houston and 3D printed by ICONвЂ™s next-gen Vulcan construction system, will be home to the crew of which NASA is now actively seeking.В вЂњTogether with NASA and ICON, we are investigating what humanityвЂ™s home on another planet will entail from the human experience,вЂќ says Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Creative Director, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. Mars Dune AlphaвЂ™s analog missions вЂ“ part of NASAвЂ™s Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA) program вЂ“ will provide valuable insights for NASAвЂ™s space food system, as well as physical and behavioral health and performance outcomes for future space missions. The 3D-printed research habitat, Mars Dune Alpha, will aid in long-duration science missions to realize future civilization on Mars.

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