Project Viriditas was an undertaking attempting to merge students from multiple disciplines to craft a greenhouse ecosystem structure for deployment on the planet Mars. Our team consisted of 28 students spanning from Architecture, Physics, Material Science, Biology, Design, Human Computer Interaction, and Engineering. Teams formed to work on the habitat's systems, form, ecology, human interfaces, structure, sensors and controls. The ecosystem would operate in a closed loop manner, constantly recycling and feeding from each organisms waste and intake. In the end the team focused on a three pronged form that tapered upward to support a large solar collector at the structure's top, allowing the plant life to receive the most sun and be located high off the freezing Martian surface, while other organisms such as fungus and algal sacs could be housed in smaller quantities near a heat source placed in the columns tapered base. The project was an excellent experience in working with a large group, and working to create not just a hypothetical proposal but a semi-working full scale physical  prototype of the project in the form of an installation piece.

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Personal work done involves sensor and system design as part of the Communication and Control team,  as well as being selected to present the project in front of a panel of NASA scientists and architects and the public.

~Fall 2015