BUILDING houses on Mars may sound like science fiction – but the idea that we could build and live on other planets, is actually not as far-fetched as you might think.
“Mars Ice House” was the winner of NASA’s first Mars challenge (image courtesy of SEArch/Clouds AO).
The BIG-designed prototype city will be houses within four geodesic domes (image courtesy of Dubai Media Office).
As technology continues to rapidly evolve and space travel becomes increasingly viable, many respected organisations around the globe are now racing to develop credible, workable proposals for habitation on Mars, and more importantly for how such extra-terrestrial buildings would be constructed.
Foster + Partners’ Mars habitat would be built by autonomous 3D printing robots (image courtesy of Foster + Partners).
Here The B1M take a look at three of the most advanced and credible prototypes under development by some of this world’s leading architects, academics and engineers.
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