Render by Rick Fan

Project Brief: Iceland Mars Analog Habitat

Design a high-fidelity Mars habitat analog for a four-person crew, engineered for long-duration missions (months to years) in Iceland’s extreme terrain. The habitat will function as a terrestrial stand-in for Martian living conditions, minimizing divergence from real Mars mission architecture wherever possible. Every system: spatial organization, life support simulation, environmental constraints, operational workflow, must support rigorous analog research for the Iceland Space Agency.

This habitat will test human performance, habitat resilience, and mission architecture before interplanetary deployment.

This project is the result of a 9-week group project (15 students) from Design for Extreme Environments: ANTICIPATING ARTEMIS, an advanced studio funded by RI Space Grant designing full scale prototypes of space infrastructure from cockpit to habitat design with critics from NASA’s Center for Design and Space Architecture, Blue Origin, and the NASA JSC’s Advanced Suit Team.

Geology Lab: Aditri Arun, Isabel Obolensky, Kaeli Li, Max Triff, Moran Zheng, Sandy Zhong
Kitchen and Living Space: Anthony Chen, Olivia Petrarcha, Rick Fan, Sam Zhan
Crew Quarters: Alex Lie, Bennett Graff, Rumei Zha, Vincent Zhang, Waverly Huang

*Unless otherwise noted, all work and assets depicted are my own or work I substantially contributed to. Furthermore, the following work highlights my team’s focus, the Geology Lab Module.