Mars Architecture Visions | Alfredo Muñoz (ABIBOO Studio)

Lecture by Alfredo Muñoz
Mars Architecture Visions
In the frame of the Module Emerging Fields in Architecture (++), HB2, TU Wien

Alfredo Muñoz is the founder of ABIBOO Studio, a global design firm that provides services to Fortune Global 500 conglomerates, government institutions, and private clients on five continents. ABIBOO’s clients to date have been diverse, including Louis Vuitton and Brookfield Properties.
Alfredo has been recognized as one of the most influential Spanish architects and is a Young European Leader (EYL40). From his offices in the United States, Spain, and India, Alfredo leads a multidisciplinary team that merges art, technology, sensory experiences, and anthropology to create unique and meaningful architectural spaces.
His work has been highlighted in major media outlets such as BBC, Bloomberg, National Geographic, Forbes, Business Insider, CNN, Wallpaper*, and Harper's Bazaar, among others. Additionally, he has shared his ideas on platforms like TED(x) Talk and Oxford Union.
Alfredo is also a member of the technical committee for Space Architecture for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and he is the leading architects of Nuwa, a self-sufficient and sustainable city on Mars and the Futuverse™, an ecosystem that leverages virtual reality and blockchain technology to create digital twins of extreme environments that results from the work of global experts in space architecture, arts, deep tech, sociology, blockchain, and the space industry.

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The module Emerging Fields in Architecture imparts current knowledge from new research fields in architectural and engineering disciplines, with the aim of dealing with current and future design challenges in a broader social context in an interdisciplinary and fundamental way. The lectures impart knowledge about different and interdisciplinary approaches to design, current developments and results of material and construction research, about planning and building under/in extreme conditions as well as about structures that change or develop due to changing parameters.

In this context, strategies for design (from the initial idea to implementation) are questioned in an interdisciplinary discourse, and the question of how the path from idea to realisation can be shaped and to what extent it is possible to be systematically creative is explored. In the practical part, an independent cross-thematic examination is to be carried out.