Latitudes of the Extreme. Architecture, Common Good, and Situated Action in Terrestrial Analogues.

Architecture for space exploration has historically been dictated by paradigms of technological efficiency and universal standardisation. These have been conceived as autonomous devices, independent of their environmental context. However, the design of terrestrial analogues – research infrastructures in isolated, extreme contexts – challenge this “place-less” vision (Pothier 2024). The present study challenges this technocratic vision by asking how geographical latitude function as a sitespecific design logic that mediates the tension between global mission protocols and local environmental survival? The research argues Extraterrestrial habitation is inextricably linked to an understanding of terrestrial latitudes. In this research, the analogue is not an engineering simulator, but rather a critical threshold for future habitation (Bishop 2013).