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Congratulations to

Natasha Liston-Beck

Architecture

Architecture

Honors Thesis Faculty Advisor: Sinead Mac Namara

Thesis Title:

Even Space Architecture Doesn't Exist in a Vacuum: Starting from a Human Perspective

This is an architectural design project that takes a human-experience perspective towards space architecture design. The scope of the project is the design of a spacecraft interior for long-term habitation in microgravity. This project studies architecture, human factors, and human-machine interface in their relationships to each other and to augmentation and proxemics. This study produces the theoretical framework for the design project described and analyzed in this paper.

The design process utilized many digital media, including augmented reality phone and desktop applications, some of which used hand and motion detectors for interaction. One of the other primary media was a spatial, interactive installation, the analysis of which brought the unique conclusion of the design as a successful step in the development of an analog environment for testing human experience in an omni-orientational microgravity environment.

Thanks to my architecture thesis partner Wendy for the awesome experience of designing together.

Links to Project Materials:

https://files.emailmeform.com/742180/6OoUmjXL/Liston-Beck_HonorsCapstone.pdf

Additional Support Provided by: Honors Funding, SOURCE Grant

 

Creative Projects 2020, School of Architecture 2020