New whitepaper: How to Build on the Moon, with commentary from Niki Werkheiser, former NASA Director of Technology Maturation, shaped by conversations with the former ISS DirectorNew whitepaper: How to Build on the Moon, with commentary from Niki Werkheiser, former NASA Director of Technology Maturation, shaped by conversations with the former ISS DirectorNew whitepaper: How to Build on the Moon, with commentary from Niki Werkheiser, former NASA Director of Technology Maturation, shaped by conversations with the former ISS Director
Publications

Books and papers from the lab.

Long-form writing on habitat design, crew health, and the future of off-world architecture. Alongside our peer-reviewed research output.

Books
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Space Wombism

Forthcoming · The next billion years of human shelter. Foreword by Frank White
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Spaces Beyond Earth

Forthcoming · A field guide to habitat design principles for long-duration missions
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Off-World Standards

In progress · A Neufert-style architectural data and standards reference for designing in space
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Designing for Confinement

In progress · Behavioral research on small-volume living, applied to habitat architecture
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Academic publications
Space Habitat Reconfigurability: TESSERAE platform for self-aware assembly. With A. Ekblaw, D. Newman, J. Paradiso
IAC 2019 · AIAA Best Professional Paper 2020
Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House as a Paradigm for a Space Habitat. With M. Cohen
ASCEND 2020
Redesign of Salyut Station for Dual-Use of Research and Tourism. With A. Uraz, T. Basu
International Astronautical Federation, 2019
Algae-Based Printer Ink as a Path to In-Situ Resource Utilization in Habitation Structures
ASCEND 2020 (AIAA 2020-4048)
Do More with Less: Efficient Furniture for Mars
University of Houston, 2019
Training Safer Spacewalks. With S. Summit
SpaceCHI, NASA Ames, forthcoming 2026
How to Build a Lunar City: A Capital, Procurement, and Infrastructure Thesis
Co-authored white paper, 2026
Partnership models for off-world habitation
Examines governance and ownership structures for joint commercial/agency habitat development. How equity, IP, and operational control should be split when a station is built by one party and operated in partnership with others.
Forthcoming book chapter, CRC Press
Contributing chapters. Into the Anthropocosmos and the Space Architecture Decadal Survey
MIT Press, 2021 · AIAA, 2025
Papers & whitepapers
How to Build on the Moon: a construction sequencing framework for lunar surface habitats
With input from Niki Werkheiser, Grant Anderson, and . A four-phase framework for sequencing lunar surface construction, and where that planning tends to break down in practice.
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Habitat layout and crew comfort: validating the HabitatFit model against analog mission data
2026
Forecasting commercial station demand from procurement signals
2026