• • uncube’s editors are Sophie Lovell (Art Director, Editor-in-Chief), Florian Heilmeyer, Rob Wilson and Elvia Wilk; editorial assistance: Susie S. Lee; graphic design: Lena Giovanazzi; graphics assistance: Madalena Guerra.

    uncube is based in Berlin and is published by BauNetz, Germany’s most-read online magazine covering architecture in a thoughtful way since 1996.

  When architects talk about “space” it’s usually in reference to floor plans and finite square metres of the Earth’s surface, to be shaped and sculpted, bought and sold. For this issue uncube is blasting off from our planet and out through the stratosphere, entering the infinitely expanding space of the universe, where the dimension of time becomes increasingly important as a parameter.
  
  But with space travel comes baggage, both physical and in the form of humans’ earthly concerns: Who owns space? Who will mine resources and start colonies? On which planets? And what type of structures can be built? Indeed what could architecture be without gravity but just with infinite... space?
  
  Join us as uncube goes galactic.

   

  The editors

  Cover image: “spaceport” from the series “outer space”, 132 x 202 cm. (Photo courtesy the artist, © Michael Najjar)
  Spaceport America, New Mexico, is the “world's first commercial spaceport” although it has yet to come into active operation as such. Designed by Foster + Partners, 2006-14, the building’s tenants include Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, UP Aerospace and Armadillo Aerospace.

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Space
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Space
• FOUND

  FOUND

  uncube goes galactic
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  New World, Old Metaphors

  Interview with Ricardo Scofidio

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Galina Balashova

  Space architect extraordinaire

  Text: Philipp Meuser
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Per Artem Ad Astra

  Interview with Michael Najjar

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Life on Mars

  ZA Architects’ plan for living on the Red Planet
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Moon Goose Colony

  Agnes Meyer-Brandis trains a flock of astronauts
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Memories of the Moon Age

  A Lunar love affair

  Text: Lukas Feireiss
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Modular Living

  At home on the ISS

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Space Junk

  Infographic by onlab

  Text: onlab
• FOUND

  FOUND

  The Last Pictures

  Trevor Paglen's portrait of humanity
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Gold Rush

  The battle for universal mining rights

  Text: Claire L. Evans
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Roadmap to the Stars

  On extraterrestrial colonisation and being human

  Text: Herbert Wright
• FOUND

  FOUND

  High Frontier

  Gerard K. O’Neill's 1977 masterplan
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Stairways to Heaven

  The star-tracking observatory in Jaipur
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Space Elevator

  Getting high on the cheap...

  Text: Sebastian Schumacher
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Martian Terroir

  How would space wine taste?
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XIII. Mars attracts!

  Text: Klaus
• NEXT

  NEXT

  Next

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