Author: Muaz Emre

Architectural Designer, and Computational Design Enthusiast

Moon Village is a collaborative research program between architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill design with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to design Moon Village as “the first permanent human settlement on the lunar surface”. SOM proposed a detailed design for the first time in 2019 at the Venice architecture biennale exhibition as a conceptual design. The initiative intends to address several issues related to surviving on the planet, among the primary goals are resilience, self-sufficiency, and using the moon’s current resources. The Moon Village would be built out in stages, with the first…

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Mars Ice House is NASA’s Centennial Challenge Mars Habitat Competition winner and is planned to be 3D printed in the next stage. The Mars Ice House project taps into this vast supply of water ice to propose an autonomously 3d printed habitat for four explorers. According to research, there are more than five million cubic kilometers of water ice on Mars, enough to blanket the planet to a depth of 35 meters. Ice is chosen as the primary material for this project due to the natural climatic and atmospheric circumstances (below freezing with low humidity) it allows to take advantage…

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