Archinect - Features 2024-10-31T19:31:34-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150419596/3d-printing-artificial-intelligence-and-space-habitats-a-conversation-with-icon-s-melodie-yashar 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Habitats: A Conversation with ICON’s Melodie Yashar Niall Patrick Walsh 2024-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 >2024-03-12T17:45:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/72/726e2472515f80b1718ebecade7b0549.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>As a &lsquo;Space Architect&rsquo; working on the design and delivery of 3D printed habitats on the Moon and Mars, <a href="https://www.melodieyashar.com/" target="_blank">Melodie Yashar</a> is aware that, even in space, <a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/446629/3d-printing" target="_blank">3D printing</a> does not exist in a vacuum. Like any construction methodology, it requires a confluence of design intent, delivery systems, material science, and accessible economics.</p> <p>In her role as Vice President of Building Design &amp; Performance at the construction technologies company <a href="https://archinect.com/ICON3dtech" target="_blank">ICON</a>, Yashar is overseeing the design and implementation of products across all these fields, with an immediate primary goal of establishing a more affordable and sustainable design and construction system. As Yashar outlined in her <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/melodie_yashar_how_to_build_for_human_life_on_mars" target="_blank">2022 TED Talk</a>, the lessons learned from such ambitious endeavors here on Earth can spark lines of inquiry for perhaps humanity&rsquo;s ultimate unresolved ambitious endeavor: surviving and thriving beyond Earth itself.</p> <p>Last week, Archinect&rsquo;s Niall Patrick Walsh spoke with Yashar as ICON was in the process of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150420028/ai-designer-and-multi-story-3d-printer-among-icon-technologies-unveiled-at-sxsw" target="_blank">unveiling a suite of new tec...</a></p>