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Ten space tourism-related designs including spaceships, space hotels and a space suitcase

April 12, 2022 Jane Englefield 0
Philippe Starck designs habitation module interior for Axiom’s space tourism program

Space tourism is a growing trend, with more and more companies offering brief trips beyond Earth. We have rounded up 10 designs for visiting space. On this day in 1961, now known as the International Day of Human Spaceflight, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to journey into outer space. Sixty-one years on,

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Makhno Studio designs conceptual settlement within Martian crater

January 24, 2022 James Parkes 0
Plan C is a 3D-printed Mars settlement concept

Ukrainian architecture practice Makhno Studio has designed a 3D-printed settlement for Mars named Plan C that would encircle the edge of a crater. The concept was developed during coronavirus lockdown when the studio was questioning how underground living could be comfortable if life on Earth’s ground level became difficult. In response to this, Makhno Studio developed a proposal for

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BIG and ICON to 3D-print structure exploring “new Martian vernacular” for NASA

August 10, 2021 Lizzie Crook 0

Bjarke Ingels’ studio BIG is collaborating with construction technology company ICON and NASA to create Mars Dune Alpha, a 3D-printed structure designed to simulate living on Mars. Under construction at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, USA, the 158-square-metre “habitat” has been developed by BIG and ICON to help prepare humans to live on the

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SOM’s inflatable habitats could allow people to “thrive over the long term” on the Moon

July 7, 2021 Jane Englefield 0

Architecture studio SOM and the European Space Agency have created more visuals for Moon Village, a concept for a settlement on the moon made up of inflatable modules. SOM presented a detailed scale model of Moon Village, which it first announced in 2019, as part of its exhibition Life Beyond Earth at this year’s Venice

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Lithuania virtually sends people to outer space at Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion

June 3, 2021 James Parkes 0
The installation is located in a church

Research studio Lithuanian Space Agency has imagined a fictional world in outer space that would be created from people 3D-scanned at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. Titled Planet of People, the Lithuanian pavilion is located in the renaissance Santa Maria dei Derelitti church and centred around a 3D scanner that scans visitors to send them into

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Watch a fly-through of Mars city designed for quarter of a million people

April 8, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Mars city

This video shows a fly-through of Nüwa, which has been designed by architecture studio ABIBOO to be the first permanent city on Mars. Powered by solar energy and growing its own food, the self-sustaining city of Nüwa would be built into a cliff face on Mars. According to its architect, ABIBOO founder Alfredo Munoz, the city

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ABIBOO envisions cliff face city as “future capital of Mars”

April 7, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architecture studio ABIBOO has designed the concept for a self-sufficient and sustainable city on Mars named Nüwa that could be built in 2054. Its architect explains the project to Dezeen. Set within a cliff on Mars, Nüwa was designed for non-profit organisation the Mars Society to be the first permanent settlement on Mars. The vertical settlement, which could eventually

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Voyager Station space hotel will spin “slightly faster than the second hand of a clock” says its architect

March 29, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0
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Following last week’s news that the first space hotel could be ready for guests in 2027, chief architect Tim Alatorre answers questions posed by sceptical Dezeen readers about the project. The claim that the wheel-shaped space hotel would be constructed in just one year was questioned by several Dezeen commenters. Others expressed doubts about the

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