Louis Poulsen Panthella Portable lamps were used for the adjustable lighting aboard the habitat (Courtesy SAGA Space Architects) Aristotelis emphasized that the availability of both controllable and uncontrollable light sources contributed greatly to their comfort and emotional well-being within the habitat. Louis Poulsen’s NJP and Panthella Portable lamps offered them the flexibility to adjust their lighting preferences as needed. In addition to the LED panels, Aristotelis and Sorensen utilized adjustable light sources in the habitat. They currently aspire towards developing a habitat that can more viscerally reproduce weather phenomena such as rain and snow. Aristotelis insisted that only through the variability and unpredictability of the weather patterns could they have derived a sense of time passing and an appreciation for the sunny days.
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Team members in Denmark maintained full control of the weather programming, though halfway through the 61-day experiment they yielded to Aristotelis and Sorensen’s desire to exaggerate the spectrum of the colors to better imitate the overwhelming and intense experience of observing a sunset or sunrise from outside.Īccording to Aristotelis, there allegedly exists a myth that if one could control the entire climate, he or she would make every day like the best day in Hawaii. When asked if an optimal lighting environment had been determined, Aristotelis told AN that no such environment existed the inability to control or predict the weather patterns simulated by the panels was more critical than finding an optimal setting. The LUNARK habitat when fully folded down and compressed (Courtesy SAGA Space Architects) To further combat monotony, they were programmed to vary between days, employing different light intensities to mimic weather conditions such as sunny and overcast skies. The custom-sized LED panels were designed to be able to emulate the phases of a natural light environment, simulating dawn, sunrise, daylight, sunset, and dusk. The bottom section contained storage, food, a urine tank, and workout equipment the middle cylinder contained desks, toilet, and a heater, and the top dome portion contained the sleeping pods and circadian light panels.Īfter identifying two key challenges which threatened the psychological and physical well-being of astronauts on the International Space Station, insomnia and monotony, SAGA worked closely with lighting manufacturer Louis Poulsen to develop an artificial circadian light system for the interior of the LUNARK habitat. The deployed habitat reached an inner volume of 607.4 cubic feet, a 750 percent volume increase on its initial folded storage volume of 77.7 cubic feet, and was partitioned into three main areas. In pursuit of hygge within the habitat, SAGA employed soft interiors, comfortable lighting, colors, surfaces textures, and carefully configured spaces. A prototype of the circadian LED lighting panel (Courtesy SAGA Space Architects) Aristotelis described how “hygge is this feeling… imagine that you are inside a tent and it’s raining but you’re underneath a blanket, completely dry and comfortable and you can hear the sound of the rain outside.” Hygge can mean something different to everyone, but it’s a feeling that can only come if one’s basic primitive needs, such as food, shelter, and protection, have been met. To embody the feeling of comfort, Aristotelis and Sorensen refer to the Danish word hygge.
What distinguishes mere survival from living well? Aristotelis told AN that they set out to create a home, not just a space station for survival in a laboratory-like setting. Unlike Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and ICON’s Project Olympus, or Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s Lunar Village-proposals designed to meet astronauts’ basic needs for surviving on the Moon-SAGA’s LUNARK instead focused on how humans might live comfortably, assuming those basic needs had already been met.
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