Mars It has ceased to be a simple planet and has become a future place to live. We don't just say it in De Salas. Own NASA proposed a competition to select the best architectural designs and manufacture them with 3D printers. Now, a Spanish studio has been a finalist in the contest The Mars Society with Nuwa, a sustainable city projected on the red planet. That said, in the near future there will be human life in Mars.
The project presented by the studio Abiboo and the scientists of sonet to live in Mars, is “far from being one more futuristic and without credibility, on the contrary, they are detailed from the diets to the political system," they say from The Mars Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting human exploration. Faced with the challenge of wondering if living there would be better, there were multiple offers that were launched, and the Spanish Nuwa She is among the ten finalists out of 175.
Broadly speaking, it is a city distributed in five urban centers, which would function in a self-sustaining, trying to depend as little as possible on the importation of materials from Earth and using the originating resources of Earth to the maximum. Mars. It sounds like science fiction, but it is not.
In joint work with academics and other members of sonet, among them 35 specialists from different disciplines such as architecture, astrophysics, aeronautics or biotechnology, “have found solutions to create structures that protect the inhabitants from the radiation existing in Mars, in addition to solving the problem of the difference in atmospheric pressure and ensuring indirect access to sunlight.”
“The city would be built vertically, facing south, on a kilometer-high cliff of the Martian geological structure of Tempe Mensa, with the buildings buried in the vertical wall, which allows them to be protected, but at the same time have light," explains Alfredo Muñoz, founder of Abiboo.
But this is not the only project that is committed to life in Mars. A little over a year ago, the Design Museum of London organized the exhibition Moving to mars, where I analyzed what the design will be like when we live there. The exhibition included more than 200 elements, including original material objects from NASA, the European Space Agency or SpaceX and where scale models of ships and of course, possible Martian houses were recreated. Be careful that we are talking about projects that have designed proper names such as Foster + Partners.
The own NASA, as we said at the beginning, gave the first clues with its contest 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, which awarded the best architectural designs of homes to be built with 3D printing technology, carrying out two small-scale construction tests. It was a close competition in which many teams studied the best solutions to create sustainable homes from virtual modeling that allows 3D modeling in Mars.
And living on another planet is getting closer, and in De Salas, that what matters most to us is that our clients and friends have the best homes, we will closely follow any progress, to offer a home in Mars, if possible.
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