Abstract A renewed public and state interest in space exploration in recent years, coupled with technological advancements in rocket science and architectural systems, has made design and engineering initiatives for Martian living tangible and urgent. This article traces the practice of utopian architectural design of a home on Mars. This home has been described by its architects as a ‘place for people’ and for ‘all of humanity.’ Off-Earth habitats have traditionally been designed with emphasis on the functionality of surviving extreme environments. New designs for Mars aim to make human-centric homes in which people can be comfortable. However, when confronted with the known realities of the Martian landscape, such designs reconfigure the place and form of the human. The Martian landscape requires that a home shelters the human body from hostile elements through totalising closed loop architectural systems. In such extreme architecture, the human form is configured as a calculable body, and becomes ‘erased.’ This article ethnographically traces how the human is imagined in such design practice and asks what happens to the idea of the human through informed design thinking as architects meet space scientists. It traces how utopic motivations to build a space ‘for all humanity’ are challenged through the material and practical reality of making design choices and exclusions. The ethnography follows the figure of the human as it is imagined as an emergent Martian lifeform which confronts the problems of the different gravity, light, radiation, and terrain that a life on mars would entail. Considering how the concept of ‘living’ might be possible in a future Martian habitat involves the practice of imagining radically alternative forms of life. By tracing how these are imagined, contested, and considered this article asks how practices of conceptualising radical alterity relate to understanding oneself as connected to the enduring idea of being human.

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建造火星家园：通过乌托邦式建筑在火星上寻找人类

摘要 近年来，公众和国家对太空探索的兴趣重新燃起，再加上火箭科学和建筑系统的技术进步，使得火星生活的设计和工程计划变得切实而紧迫。本文追溯了火星上住宅的乌托邦式建筑设计实践。这个家被它的建筑师描述为“人的地方”和“全人类的地方”。传统上，地外栖息地的设计重点是在极端环境中生存的功能。火星的新设计旨在打造以人为本的住宅，让人们在其中感到舒适。然而，当面对火星景观的已知现实时，这样的设计重新配置了人类的位置和形式。火星景观要求一个家庭通过综合闭环建筑系统来保护人体免受敌对因素的影响。在这种极端的建筑中，人的形态被配置为一个可计算的身体，并被“抹去”。本文从民族志的角度追溯了人类在这种设计实践中是如何被想象的，并询问当建筑师遇到空间科学家时，通过知情的设计思维，人类的想法会发生什么变化。它追溯了“为全人类”建造空间的乌托邦动机如何通过做出设计选择和排除的物质和实际现实受到挑战。民族志遵循人类的形象，因为它被想象为一种新兴的火星生命形式，它面临着火星上的生命所需要的不同重力、光线、辐射和地形的问题。考虑到在未来的火星栖息地中“生活”的概念如何成为可能，涉及到想象完全替代的生命形式的实践。通过追溯这些是如何被想象、质疑和考虑的，本文提出了将激进的他异性概念化的实践如何与将自己理解为与作为人类的持久观念相关联。