Architectural Graduation Project, ENVR - 2022
Space Med Research Center is located in the medical city in the new capital administration, Egypt, as the initial phase of a larger Masterplan along the medical city.
The space medicine research center focuses on the overarching goal to maintain human health and performance in space, in aviation, and on Earth. Enabling integrative life science research at the highest level.
Space medicine focuses on the health and well-being of astronauts in low-Earth-orbit and space. This area of research will have great importance to the success of future space missions, especially those of longer duration.
Our bodies have been shaped over thousands of years by Earth’s gravity. Remove or reduce that gravity and we know it has detrimental effects on the body, for example, affecting the cardiovascular system by decreasing heart size and blood volume, diminishing bone density and muscle mass, impairing the vestibular system function, and reducing the ability of the immune system, among others.
These can have undesirable health consequences for the astronauts themselves, both in space and upon return to Earth’s gravity, and can also lead to operational difficulties for any mission. Therefore, continued research is vital for the health and well-being of space travelers, whether on short-or long-term missions and equally for space tourists, as the space tourism industry is launched.