‘Sleeping With the Stars’ – The Design of a Personal Crew Quarter for the International Space Station

Preliminary Numerical Studies for the Improvement of the Ventilation System of the Crew Quarters on Board of the International Space Station

“…Case 1 was already presented in detail in [7]. This configuration of the air diffuser is composed by four rectangular regions, each of them having independent vertical and horizontal guiding vanes [3,5,6]. For the Case 1 the unstructured tetrahedral mesh has 4.8 million elements, for Case 2 the mesh has 5.7 million cells.…”

“…The total deployed volume of a CQ is around 2.1 m 3 and it was desirable to provide as large a habitable volume for the crew member as possible with the respect of the configuration to a standard US rack volume [3,5,6]. The structure of a CQ is divided into three main areas: bump-out, rack, and pop-up ( Figure 2).…”

“…The ventilation system's main objective is to flush the carbon dioxide concentration, which in high levels represents an asphyxiation hazard. Inside the CQ, the air receives the crew member's metabolic heat (considered to be between 100 and 132 W) and the electronics heat (around 153 W) [3,5,6]. The air is then directed though the CQ exhaust duct outlet and directed parallel to the rack face and down the aisle way toward the Node 2 CCAA air return.…”

Designing from the Unfamiliar: How Designing for Space and Extreme Environments can generate spin-off and innovate product strategies

“…Two first-hand case studies follow; the first references "immersive kinaesthetic exercises" as an empirical aid to gain awareness and insights and to generate scenarios and questions to directly inform a design process (Fairburn and Walker 2001). The second case study positions itself as 'design of use and gesture" methodology, an approach based on the forecast use and on the simulation of the results (A.…”

“…In the first case study, the author, a registered SCUBA diver with years of openwater and simulated (hyperbaric chamber) diving experience, sought to perceive body mobility and body-object interface in an unfamiliar way (Fairburn and Walker, 2001). A series of experiential exercises were developed involving underwater, simulated-weightlessness sessions, carried out in a diving tank using SCUBA to permit longer period of activity and observation.…”