The Case for Space Architecture as a Discipline

Space architecture is treated as a specialty of engineering. It is closer to a discipline of its own — and the New Space age needs it.

More than layout

Space architecture sits between human factors, engineering, and design. Reducing it to interior layout misses the point: it decides whether a body can live somewhere at all.

A field, on purpose

Building it as a discipline — with methods, benchmarks, and preserved knowledge — is part of what the Lab is for.