Ariel Ekblaw

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Short Wave · Could Architecture In Space Make A Greener Earth? · 16 Dec 2025 podcast

So when you have a modular system like this, you have a lot of seals that have to really work well to be able to, for example, use it as a habitat to keep air pressure inside.

So we're designing a system of gasketing or clamps that would actually bring the structure in together and hold air pressure together.

And then the second of many things we think about is how do we protect the human crew that's inside this big buckyball?

So we're also thinking about the shielding that's required to provide good radiation protection.

Yeah.

So one of the interesting things about deep space exploration is we're going to have to be able to grow our own space.

agriculture.

We have to be able to be self-sustaining in a future space station.

And this actually does still come back down and benefit life on Earth in that example of our kind of mission-driven work that's focused on Earth first in areas that are torn by natural disasters or really resource-constrained environments.

There's a lot that we can learn from space agriculture and then be able to take some of those lessons down to Earth.

We just did a big space garden project with Daikin, one of the world's largest HVAC companies, thinking about how do you

Keep air humidified.

How do you keep it at the right temperature in an extreme environment?

How do you get CO2 out of the air and turn it into oxygen for humans or the opposite for plants, right?

Plants need CO2.

So we're working with some exceptional partners to put together this notion of a

space garden?

How would we actually do plant growth in orbit?

And then brought this to the Venice Architecture Biennale earlier this year.

Yes, I think there's a mix.

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