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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

B. Imhof, P. Gruber:
"Transformation - structure/space";
Talk: Space Exploration Conference 2005, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; 04-03-2005 - 04-06-2005; in: "Space Exploration Conference 2005", (2005), ##.



English abstract:
'Transformation - structure/space', paper Space Exploration Conference,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Engineers, designers and architects often look to nature for inspiration.
Nature has perfected its designs through billions of years of evolution, so
mimicking its creations is a sure way of producing technologies that are
both efficient and reliable. There is nothing new about borrowing design
ideas from nature, but now this has received a new name [bionics or
biomimetics] and it is taking the world by storm. As a scientific
discipline, bionics (biomimetics) deals systematically with the technical
execution and implementation of constructions, processes and developmental
principles of biological systems. This also includes various forms of
interaction between living and non-living elements and systems.

Present and future robotic missions to the Moon [SMART-1 (ESA), SELENE
(Japan), Chandrayaan-1 (India), CHANG'E-1 (China), South Pole-Aitken Basin
Sample Return (USA)] and Mars [Mars Express (ESA), Beagle-2 (ESA), Rovers
Spirit and Opportunity (USA), Mars Odyssey (USA)] will serve as precursors
to future human missions to our planetary neighbors. Future long-duration
human missions will have direct implications for the architecture of the
space habitats. Therefore it is timely to explore this field and also to
look for the overlaps in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial architecture for
possible spin-ins and spin-offs.

Using specific research in the fields of space exploration and/or bionics
(biomimetics) as the foundation, 5 different architectural projects based on
a scientific-technological concept were developed at the HB 2 department in
2004.


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/pub-ar_4777.pdf


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