Interdisciplinary Design Competitions Program

美国大学的建筑学学生将被邀请与工程学和其他学生合作，参加两项连续举行的比赛，以开发南极洲麦克默多站的概念设计，并对南极洲和太空两种极端环境进行比较研究。这些竞赛具有教育性--它们旨在培养在极端环境中支持科学和人类生存的结构设计和工程方面的能力。该项目是在AIAS管理的早先的“环境1”竞赛的基础上进行的，该竞赛旨在为地理南极的一个考察站开发一个概念设计。那场比赛吸引了来自71所学校的167个项目。

Students of architecture, in collaboration with engineering and other students, at U.S. universities will be invited to enter two competitions, staged serially, to develop conceptual designs for McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and for comparative studies of the two extreme environments of Antarctica and space. The competitions are educational--they are intended to develop capabilities in the design and engineering of structures that support science and human existence in extreme environments. The project follows on an earlier "Environment 1" competition managed by AIAS to develop a conceptual design for a research station at the geographic South Pole. That competition attracted 167 projects from 71 schools.