First Mars Outpost Architectural Study

Many previous concepts for manned Mars surface facilities have not been developed fully because of attempting to integrate the Mars habitat and the trans-planetary spacecraft. The design emphasis stagnated upon trans-Mars spacecraft. NASA has started to look at the decomposition of the Mars mission into two activity categories "Getting There" and "Being There". Focusing on the part called "Being There" enables separating some of traditional space vehicle construction constraints from the definition of Mars mission habitat requirements. This approach will be demonstrated and clarified with a set of First Mars Outpost [FMO] elements and assumptions. Those design guidelines will provide the objectives to be explored and evaluated as architectural design issues, and may actuate the Mars mission strategy and generates requirements for necessary technology development as well. Beside the technology development, the syntax of design philosophy will lead to architectural insights: man-machine interface, human factors, and space ergonomics. Simultaneously, implications of the FMO will expose architectural ideologies; robotic construction applied for site preparation, such as building automation, robotic served self-building assembly system, such as kinetic architecture, and autonomous architecture with utilization systems for in-situ resources, consist in condensing the working-living human complex in space.