Melodie Yashar

ICON • Vice President, Building Design & Performance

Melodie Yashar is a space architect, technologist, and researcher. She is the VP of Building Design & Performance at ICON, a construction technologies company focused on large scale additive manufacturing for Earth and in space. Melodie oversees the architectural direction of ICON’s built work as well as the performance of ICON’s building systems to deliver optimally-performing structures that shift the paradigm of homebuilding on Earth and beyond. Collaborating across technology and construction teams, her department supports the design and construction of dignified and resilient terrestrial housing solutions in addition to supporting the development of ICON’s off-world construction systems.

In prior roles, Melodie was a Senior Research Associate with the Human Systems Integration Division at NASA Ames via within the Human Computer Interaction Lab. She was also a co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+), a research group developing human-supporting designs for space exploration, as well as a Professor within the Architecture department of Pratt Institute. Melodie currently teaches undergraduate and graduate space architecture studios at Art Center College of Design. Melodie obtained a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a Master of Human-Computer Interaction for Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.

Events

International Astronautical Congress 2024

14-18 October 2024

Milan, Italy

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