Today, space structures are first designed and manufactured on earth and next they are launched into orbit. My approach investigates how large-scale space structures can be fabricated rapidly and on-demand directly in space.

Inspired by the traditional craft of glassblowing, I research how we can create space structures with a liquid polymer-based additive manufacturing technology by leveraging the zero-gravity environment of space. With a Masters degree of Industrial Design and a Mechanical Engineering background I explore the liquid shape via a unique form-finding approach as part of the direct track Ph.D. program in the Technion. This approach expands the recent fluidic shaping of optical components technology developed in the Technion by the Fluidic Technologies group. Harnessing the laws of physics and based on the surface tension principle, an equilibrium of the system reflects a stable minimum energy state where the polymer is solidified into its final form.

Under the supervision of both Professors Aaron Sprecher and Moran Bercovici from the Technion, we have developed numerous tools and techniques to allow the prediction, fabrication, and analysis of fluidic-shaped solidified 3D structures made in the lab under a simulated zero gravity environment.