YACademy High-Level Training Course | 2023 Edition | Architecture for Outer Space , Bologna / Italien

 

 

Cinema and science fiction have accustomed us to perceiving space research as something remote. Yet, 50 years after the last human landing on the Moon, a renewed interest in space has driven a group of international partners to return to our satellite through the Artemis program, in November 2022. 

 

Humans are expected to walk on the Moon again by 2025. After that, the Moon will become the most important scientific base of humankind. In all likelihood, the most significant scientific discoveries of the coming decades will take place there.

 

In this remarkable scenario, architects will play a key role.

For the first time in history, humanity is concretely being called upon to evolve as an interplanetary species. The colonization of any ecosystem or environment needs habitats and identity-giving places: it needs architecture.

 

For this reason, in collaboration with the European Space Agency's Topical Team on Planetary Caves, the course in Space Architecture was established to train the new pioneers of architecture, designers with a heroic and experimental mission: making human history by writing the future of the first extraterrestrial architectures. 

 

ESA, NASA and SpaceX: specializing in space architecture today means being the first architects to acquire specific skills and a competitive advantage in a disruptive field, which will offer extraordinary opportunities and significant investment in the near future.

 

Italian (translation into English avalaible)

 

15 In person

5 Online

 

Bologna

 

27.11.2023 - 16.2.2024

 

3 days/week

 

7,900 € + VAT In person

2,450 € + VAT Online

3 full scholarships available for the most outstanding candidates

 

Moon Research Lab

 

The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with the European Space Agency's Topical Team on Planetary Caves. Its goal will be to investigate the possibilities of developing analysis and research modules within lunar pits. A result of the collapse of portions of lava tubes underlying the lunar surface, such holes provide access to a vast system of tunnels and galleries that reasonably are the safest context in which to place the first human garrisons in the extraterrestrial environment. In the tunnels of our satellite, the human settlement would be sheltered from the extreme temperature ranges of the surface and from the lethal radiation that – due to the absence of atmosphere - periodically invests the Moon. Here, the first human bases will be able to grow and develop as the foundation of future colonies. Through the workshop, students will have the opportunity not only to grapple with an exciting and visionary topic - constantly monitored by experts in the field - but also to contribute to the theoretical solution of challenges that design in the extraterrestrial sphere will necessarily face.

 

Construction is a fundamental step in architecture. For this reason, YACademy offers its students the opportunity to participate in the process of producing their own ideas. Thus, the students will gain practical experience on construction sites and, above all, the authorship of projects built for excellent commissions, destined for a major media echo and capable of defining a turning point in their professional career.

 

Paolo Nespoli, Astronauta

Melodie Yashar, ICON

Francesco Sauro, ESA Topical Team Planetary Caves

Julian Ocampo Salazar, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group

Georgi Petrov, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - SOM

Xavier De Kestelier, Hassell

Daniel Inocente, Blue Origin

Riccardo Pozzobon, Università di Padova

Alessandro Aresu, Ministero della Ricerca - Limes

Sandra Haeuplik Meusburger, TU Wien

Phnam Bagley, Nonfiction

Olga Bannova, Sakasawa International Center for Space Architecture

Ari Peralta, Arigami UK

Christoph Aubrecht, ESA - Global Development (GDA)

René Waclavicek, Liquifer System Group

Monika Brandić Lipińska, HUUBE Newcastle University

Raffaele Mauro, Primo Space

Sante Mazzacane, Università degli Studi di Ferrara | Aquaponic Design srl, Università di Bologna

Giulio Rigoni, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group

Hugh Broughton, Hugh Broughton Architects

Valentina Sumini, Politecnico di Milano

 

Students or graduates in Architecture/Design can apply to the course. The commission, based on the assessment of the application, may admit students with different qualifications.

 

To apply, it is necessary to register online and submit a Curriculum Vitae, a Portfolio, and a Motivational Letter. Moreover, it is necessary to pay the administration fee (60€ + VAT). The best 20 candidates will be admitted to the course according to the rules.

 

Complying with deadlines is a fundamental requirement to take part in the course. All students are encouraged to pay the utmost attention to the timeline and to complete each phase in advance.

 

May 8, 2023

 

September 15, 2023

 

October 02, 2023

 

October 03, 2023

 

November 27, 2023