Gui Trotti is an internationally recognized architect and industrial designer. As president of Trotti & Associates, Inc. his work covers a wide range of fields, from designs for the habitation module on the International Space Station, to the South Pole Station, to innovative designs for Space suits to explore the moon and Mars. He has extensive design and research experience designing buildings, environments and equipment for people living in extreme environments. As founder and president of two architecture and industrial design firms in Houston and Boston he has been responsible for managing the design and construction of hospitality, residential, entertainment, educational exhibits, and other sustainable architectural projects.
Mr. Trotti is a co-founder, of the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) at the University of Houston where he acted as the associate director, and taught graduate and undergradute courses in design, and human factors. He has conducted research and design activities in extreme environments habitats, advanced modular structures and construction methods in Space, space mission architectures, and human machine interphase. His SICSA team won the NSF/AIA National Competition for a new South Pole Station, utilizing many parallels and lessons learned from the design of Lunar and Mars missions. He has also taught Industrial Design at the Rohde Island School of Design (RISD) where in 1993 he started the “Space Studio” presently funded by NASA; he also directed design studios at RISD, and the Studio Art Collage International (SACI) in Florence, Italy in collaboration with the MIT Age Lab developing ideas and products to support the aging population. Mr. Trotti has been affiliated with the MIT Age Lab since the early 1990’s.
He was co-founder of Space Industries, Inc. one of the first private space companies in the 1980’s. He is actively involved in the development of self-sustaining projects for Earth, space, and sea. Mr. Trotti has served in the National Academies, National Research Council “Review of NASA’s Exploration Technology Program Committee” (2008), the “Decadal Survey in Life and Physical Sciences Space Research” Translation to Space Exploration Systems Panel (2011). He has also served on the Committee on U.S. Human Spaceflight Technical Feasibility Panel of the “Pathways To Exploration” Rationales and Approaches for a US Program of Human Space Exploration (2014).
Mr. Trotti is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of EarthDNA, a nonprofit organization seeking to inform, transform, and accelerate sustainable actions, from individuals, leaders at every level of society such as governments, businesses, and consumers through the use of machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
His undergraduate design thesis in architecture entitled “Counterpoint: A Lunar Colony”, is part of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum permanent collection. He has over 30 years of teaching experience in Architecture design in the College of Architecture at the University of Houston, and Industrial Design courses for extreme environments at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Studio Arts College International (SACI) in Florence, Italy, and is a member of the Governing Board of the International Space University in Strasbourg , France. He lectures extensively on design, and sustainability throughout the world. Mr. Trotti circumnavigated the Earth on his sailboat Galatea, he is a member of the Explorers Club.
Trotti Studio is an Architectural and Industrial Design firm specializing in sustainable design solutions in ecologically sensitive areas and extreme environments of the world such as Caribbean islands, tropical rainforests, reefs, mountains, and deserts. We focus on innovative design and building practices that produce high-quality, practical, and long-lasting sustainable building solutions. Architect Guillermo Trotti is an expert in architecture design and development in extreme environments. He started his career working as a consultant to NASA designing many elements of the International Space Station and future concepts of lunar bases and vehicles. Mr. Trotti has sailed around the world to research eco-friendly building techniques, marina designs, sustainable materials, and sustainable development in the tropics. Trotti Studio is applying many of the high technologies and design strategies of space exploration in conjunction with different world vernacular designs and building techniques to projects in order to achieve the best possible results for a diverse clientele.
Trotti Studio specializes in:
Eco-Tourism / Hospitality
Residential / Commercial
Entertainment Facilities
Museums / Exhibits
Industrial Design
Space Architecture
Based in Cambridge MA, Trotti Studio has established a close relationship with technical experts and consultants from MIT with expertise in the fields of:
Computer Modeling | Eco-Design | Heat Transfer | Hurricane and Seismic Design | Power Storage | Renewable Energy | Structures | Sustainable Materials | Tensile and Modular Structures | Water Harvesting, Desalination, and Management