And a talk with Ed Keller
Michael Morris works as an architect and professor and is the co-founder of SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture) and Morris Sato Studio with his late wife and partner, Yoshiko Sato. His widely recognized architecture integrates design with science and art. As a contributing architect to the world’s most iconic space agency - NASA - Morris explores the possibility of building and inhabiting the extreme conditions of outer space.
In his presentation – 5 Houses for Mars – Morris presented SEArch+’s innovative “live/work” structures to be built from in-situ resourced utilized (ISRU) materials obtained from the planets surface and atmosphere. These materials include: polyethylene, regolith (Martian concrete), and ice, and are designed to be robotically extracted, produced, and printed into habitats in advance of the first pioneering humans’ arrival on Mars.