Advisor: Matthew Melnyk
Partner: Begum Baysun

This project begins to use software and tools to push the ideas of mobile structures. The brief called for a research station in the Antarctic to house several researchers. By turning to the aeronautics industry, composite material technology that has been developed was to be integrated into the design of this research station. Much like the fuselage of the modern aircraft such as the Airbus A380 or Boeing 787 Dreamliner - the research station is designed to be formed in rings that are later assembled together.

To develop the structure and find the idealized form, Grasshopper was used in conjunction with Karamba to subject the structure to gravitational loads and observe its deformation. Based on the results of these stress tests, the form was creased and the depths of the fuselage rings were increased to enhance the structures stability.