Designed to withstand extreme environments, this proposal aimed to provide portable, self-sustainable, and buildable compact houses for field researchers as their homes and bases during scientific exploration on unexplored earth.

Each of the houses provides a living quarter of around 300 sqft. Employing a self-supporting buckminster structure, most parts can be prefabricated, and mass-produced in smaller modular units. This not only improves efficiency to settle in new site, but also enables mobility by vehicles. Contesting building of permanent structures at research fields, our proposal allows structures to be dissembled, reused, expand, and reconstructed in other sites when station bases change scale and location. 

Considering setting up in extreme sites with no utilities, a ‘Vehicle House’ approach has been adapted, where habitable unit is transported to new location in daytime while stored vehicles and powered living area with their generators at night. By enclosing inner dome with a buckminster sphere, 2 layers of skin provide a buffer protection for both residents and their primary transports from extreme climate environment. 

Through this design, it is hoped to provide innovative direction to new era of digital nomadic architecture, leading mankind to discover the unknowns where no formers were capable to reach.