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ASTRAEUS was founded in response to a simple observation: the environments supporting the Space Age are rarely designed with the same care as the systems they house.
We are entering a new era of human expansion.
For decades, space has been defined by missions—temporary, isolated, and engineered for survival. But the next chapter demands something fundamentally different: environments that are not just functional, but livable. Not just engineered, but designed, planned, and sustained over time.
As the space economy accelerates, the question is no longer if we build beyond Earth. it’s how we create places where people can live, work, and form communities.
ASTRAEUS exists to answer that question.
Our work brings together architecture, infrastructure, and planning by combining real-world experience in launch environments, large-scale development, and community systems to create a new framework for habitation.
We are building systems that are:
grounded in how infrastructure is actually delivered
informed by how communities actually grow
and designed for long-term human presence
Because building in space is not just a technical challenge.
It is a human one. The future will not be built as missions.
From launch infrastructure to living systems, it will inevitably be built as “places.”
Ethos
ASTRAEUS values clarity over spectacle, restraint over excess, and care over speed. The goal is not to accelerate progress at any cost, but to make it sustainable.
ASTRAEUS is developing a new model for space-focused environments— beginning on Earth.
Our work is structured across three interconnected layers:
1. Physical Environments
We design and prototype facilities that support the space economy, including coworking, labs, and infrastructure for aerospace-adjacent industries. These spaces act as Earth-based analogs for future off-world systems.
2. Community Systems
We develop frameworks for how people live, work, and collaborate within these environments; integrating planning, governance, and shared infrastructure to support long-term growth.
3. Future Habitation Models
We translate these systems into scalable concepts for space-based environments, bridging terrestrial development with the realities of orbital, lunar, and planetary habitation.
Our first step is building an Earth-based outpost— a place where these ideas are tested, refined, and made real.
THE COLLECTIVE
TAYLOR PARKER | PIONEER / FOUNDER
Taylor Parker is an architectural designer, entrepreneur, and space architecture professional working at the intersection of aerospace infrastructure, the built environment, and future habitation systems. She has contributed to launch site infrastructure and facility design + development efforts in association with SpaceX— supporting aesthetic and technical design, interdisciplinary coordination, planning, and contractor-side execution within active spaceflight environments.
Her experience spans commercial, government, and aerospace-adjacent projects, including facilities design, construction documentation, and multidisciplinary coordination across structural, MEP, and specialty systems. She has worked extensively in BIM-based production environments for over a decade, developing plans, details, and visualization outputs that translate complex concepts into buildable systems.
She develops advanced cinematic visualizations of future habitats, translating complex architectural, spatial, and infrastructure systems into immersive environments that make emerging space-based living systems tangible, understandable, and buildable.
In addition to her professional work, Taylor serves as an adjunct professor in interior architecture, reinforcing her commitment to advancing design thinking and technical knowledge in the next generation of designers. Her background also includes independent design practice and cross-disciplinary work in graphics, visualization, and spatial strategy, contributing to a holistic, systems-driven approach to design.
Taylor is the founder of the ASTRAEUS platform, where she leads the vision and development of integrated environments that connect terrestrial infrastructure with the future of space habitation. Her work focuses on translating architectural intelligence from extreme environments into scalable frameworks for space-based systems, with an emphasis on resilience, adaptability, and human-centered design.
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ERIC R. HOWELL | COFOUNDER
Eric R. Howell is an award-winning, National Charrette Institute–certified community planner working at the intersection of multimodal transportation systems, community development, and participatory governance. His work integrates human-centered design, public policy, and infrastructure investment to align civic engagement with implementable, long-range community outcomes.
He has contributed to initiatives influencing more than $9B in planning frameworks and securing over $25M in grants for community and transportation programs.
His experience spans multimodal transportation planning, land use and zoning, comprehensive planning, and community and economic development strategy. He has operated in complex, multidisciplinary environments across municipal, regional, and consulting contexts, coordinating with public agencies, technical experts, and community stakeholders to translate engagement into actionable planning and policy outcomes.
In addition to practice, Eric is a co-founder of initiatives advancing design thinking in planning and participatory budgeting, reflecting a commitment to human-centered, systems-based approaches to civic innovation in the public sector. He also contributes to academic programs across multiple universities, supporting applied learning in planning, engagement, and community systems development.
At ASTRAEUS, Eric leads the development of scalable community planning and infrastructure frameworks that bridge vision and implementation. His focus is ensuring that civic systems are not only conceptually strong, but structurally viable, governance-ready, and capable of delivering long-term public value.
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