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01 / 05 The goal

My goal

I want to earn a place on SpaceX’s design team.

And contribute to how humans live beyond Earth.

≈2,000 hoursOne question I still haven’t stopped asking:

What happens next?

My goal: SpaceX’s design team

The morning after
we land on Mars.

What happens next?

Take the journey
02 Get there

One object. Two lives.

How does part of a spacecraft become the first architecture on Mars?

The journey does not end at landing. It changes state.

Exploded architectural study of a spacecraft separating into modular elements
Transport system / detachable module study
  1. 01SpacecraftTransport
  2. 02DetachSeparate
  3. 03DeployReconfigure
  4. 04HabitatInhabit
Michael Wang's spacecraft approaching Mars
Approaching Mars A spacecraft conceived with its second life in mind. Original spacecraft visualization

Selected technical studies

The architectural question has technical consequences.

Three studies follow the same object through protection, release and occupation. They establish that a system exists without resolving every mechanism here.

01
Survive transit

Protect the detachable habitat.

A protective layer and high-strength net respond to orbital exposure and Martian dust before the module becomes architecture.

Orbital protection, net structure, dust resistance and material studies Open full image ↗
02
Change state

Dock, detach and deploy.

Active, hard and soft capture systems manage transfer. Foldable legs allow the released module to meet the surface.

Docking, capture, foldable leg and surface deployment studies Open full image ↗
03
Become habitat

Adapt, connect and inhabit.

Soil, anchoring, stability, assembly, ventilation and resource distribution turn a landed object into a settlement system.

Martian soil, habitat assembly, stability and resource distribution studies Open full image ↗

The object has reached the surface. The next question is scale.

Deploy the habitat
03 Build there

Not a masterplan. A growth system.

How does one habitat become a city?

Initial Mars base plan
01 / 04Initial baseOne habitat begins to organize a ground condition.

6parametric iterations

4discarded schemes

14modular unit types

3growth transitions

The final city is only the version that survived.

Complete bird's-eye view of Michael Wang's Mars City proposal Open full image ↗
Mars City / complete aerialOne system. Many ways to live.

A city is more than the multiplication of shelter.

Spread our roots
04 Live there

A habitat can keep you alive. What makes you want to stay?

Bright communal interior looking onto the Martian landscape
01WorkDaily activity remains connected to the landscape.
Pathway between Mars habitat modules at sunrise
02MeetMovement between modules becomes shared space.
Private lounge overlooking a Mars settlement
03Look outPrivacy and observation can coexist.
04 / Belong

Survival is an engineering threshold.
Belonging is an architectural one.

The project ends here. The question does not.

What comes next?
05 An invitation

My goal

My goal is to earn a place on SpaceX’s design team.

I want to contribute an architectural and spatial-design perspective to the environments of a multiplanetary future.

Can you help me take the next step?

02

I know someone at SpaceX

03

I want to help