{"id":7352,"date":"2026-03-10T18:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7352"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:02:43","slug":"en-talk-from-habitats-to-infrastructure-space-architecture-at-foster-partners","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/event\/en-talk-from-habitats-to-infrastructure-space-architecture-at-foster-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"talk || Infrastructure is architecture: the overlooked half of the problem | Foster + Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Infrastructure is architecture: the overlooked half of the problem<br \/>\n<\/strong>Marina Konstantatou (Associate Partner Foster &amp; Partners)<\/p>\n<p>Space architecture becomes truly real when it stops being a single object and becomes an ecosystem. A long-term presence requires infrastructure. This is also why space architecture is increasingly defined not by iconic \u201cbases,\u201d but by networks of interdependent modules. This lecture will focus on recent Foster + Partners projects in which habitats and infrastructure are co-dependent and designed together as one integrated system.<\/p>\n<p>Marina is an Associate Partner at F + P and an Industrial Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In her hybrid role spanning industry and academia, she is based at the Specialist Modelling Group (SMG) at Foster + Partners and the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. As a Design Systems Analyst and SMG Research Lead, she specialises in conceptual structural design, form-finding, and architectural geometry. In addition, she contributes to research projects focusing on additive manufacture, robotics, space architecture and extra-terrestrial infrastructure. In her academic capacity, Marina develops computational tools and theoretical frameworks for the design of materially efficient structures using graphic statics. Marina has a background in applied mathematics and physics, after which she specialised in computational design at the Architectural Association, and civil engineering at the University of Cambridge. She holds a PhD from the Department of Engineering on \u2018Geometry-based structural analysis and design\u2019 (graphic statics). Her previous academic and industry collaborations include ETH Zurich (Chair of structural design) and Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill (structures group).<\/p>\n<p>Talk within the design studio <em>Large Orbital Space Structures<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"event_cat":[],"class_list":["post-7352","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_cat?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}