佐川国际空间建筑中心（SICSA）是休斯顿大学内的一家研究和设计机构。SICSA在太空和极端陆地环境的栖息地研究，规划和设计方面拥有30多年国际认可的经验。这样的设置存在许多紧急问题。它们通常会给人员，设备和物资带来物流运输方面的挑战，存在严重的设施建设和运营限制，要求在隔离，密闭条件下仔细注意可居住性，性能和安全性，并严重依赖所有实际手段来优化节能，生态高效负责任的策略。地面规划应用程序包括偏远的石油和天然气勘探/生产营地，紧急自然灾害响应行动和庇护所，以及针对恶劣，欠发达地区的快速军事部队部署场所。
The Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) is a research and design organization within the University of Houston. SICSA brings more than 30 years of internationally recognized experience in habitat research, planning and design for space and extreme terrestrial environments. Such settings share many urgent problems and issues. They typically impose logistic transport challenges for people, equipment and supplies, present severe facility construction and operational constraints, demand careful attention to habitability, performance and safety under isolated, confined conditions, and heavily rely upon all practical means to optimize energy-efficient, ecologically-responsible strategies. Terrestrial planning applications include remote oil and gas exploration/production camps, emergency natural disaster response operations and shelters, and rapid military troop deployment accommodations for harsh, undeveloped locales.