Feeling at Home as a Dimension of Resilience in Architecture for Extreme Environments [comunicação oral: poster]

Abstract

As human exploration advances into increasingly hostile and isolated environments, such as extraterrestrial habitats on Mars, the Moon, or deep-sea stations, the concept of resilience must evolve beyond its traditional technical and physiological dimensions.

This need becomes particularly critical in contexts of long-duration habitation, where survival alone is insufficient to guarantee long-term operational stability and human wellbeing.

Central to this assertion is the recognition that resilience entails examining construction in relation to permanence, which may also be understood as a sense of feeling at home, shifting resilience from a purely performance-based concept to a relational and experiential condition.

This perspective requires redirecting science, technology, and design toward the conditions that enable habitation to become sustainable, meaningful, and socially durable.

This includes environmental adaptation, understood as the strategic use of local raw materials and regenerative systems, reducing dependency on external supply chains and increasing environmental compatibility, as well as the processes accompanying construction, which involve the complex relationships between these local materials, the tools, crafts, and other elements that make construction possible.