DESTINATION MOON

Storyboard

In the year 2050 the world will realize that Earth`s resources are nearly exploited. World leaders gather and start an international project to colonize other planets.

A first step will be a robotic mission to the Moon. Independent of political and economic changes on Earth, robots start building up a base.

In the year 2090, based on the previous successful missions, a larger habitat is planned for permanent residents on the Moon. The aim is to create a base with only little or, in the best case, no support from Earth.

Specific Characteristics

The main aim was to design a Moon base that uses the Moon`s natural resources and provides high quality living space for the reside nts.

Long-term missions have special demands. It is important to provide appropriate leisure time activities. Furthermore it is necessary to adapt the housing to the various needs of astronauts.

During long-term missions social needs also have to be considered. The main floor supports these requirements by providing a large variety of possibilities for social interaction.

Evaluation by Marc M. Cohen

The theme of Lunar Village One is “Think Globally – Act Locally.” The proposal focuses on emplacing a habitat within a cave, or somewhere else close to Shackleton Crater. It includes using sintered regolith to create domes and other types of structures made primarily from in situ materials. The goal is to achieve an airtight sintered structure.

The Lunar Village One starts from a good functional layout diagram that assigns functions to each of the major floor areas. The main impleme ntation of this functional arrangement is a central dome with three satellite domes. Each of the satellite domes has a single connection to the main dome; the lack of connection among the secondary domes is a weakness insofar as it does not provide multiple access or dual remote egress.

The architectural plan includes a rover garage with rear hatches, in effect bringing their “parking spaces” with them. Within the larger central dome, the architects locate a “plotted regolith structure,” which seems to serve mainly as a sculptural element. Within the central dome, the crew will live in rectangular living modules that feature foldout internal and external compone nts.

The model shows that the architects achieved a sufficient level of detail in the central dome, including extensive plant gro wth areas. However, the three satellite dome interiors remain unrepresented.

“The group presented an interesting spatial approach for a dome. Unfortunately the potential of the project was not fulfilled.“ [Instructors]

Moon Nomadic

Project by Alexander Kolaritsch and David Lukacs

Location Shackleton Crater

Year 2050

Mission Objective trading

Mission Length -

Crew members 2

Typology mobile

Specific Characteristics mobile multifunctional units between future outposts

Storyboard Settlement

The first settlements were established in northern Africa - close to fountains or places where precious raw materials could be mined.

Connect

Tribes of the Touareg started to connect these settlements to trade goods between them. For this purpose they used camels and rode them on trading routes.

Reach for more

The sphere of influence of the Touareg trading routes grew larger and larger. They first gained influence in Africa and later traded between cities all over the world.

Think Interplanetary

In 2050 mankind started to build the first populated settlements on the surface of the Moon. Most of these bases were located in and around the Shackleton crater, next to the south pole of the Moon.

RE-connect

Soon after the first s ettleme nts, ‘Moon nomads’ establish symbiotic trading routes between the settlements on the Moon.

Specific Characteristics

The Base

The Moon Nomads lunar base provides shelter for two people on a trading mission so that one of them could move to a lunar base for trading with a rover while the other could stay in the homebase as backup with a second rover. The basic layout of the lunar base consists of two rover modules and two habitat modules. The rover modules are the main working areas. Each of the rovers also serves as bedroom for the astronauts. Also located in the rovers are trading goods and a docking station for the habitat modules. Two cupolas serve as visual connections to the outside world - the front one is also a window for steering. The second one is located on the top of the rover so the astronauts can look at the Earth when in their beds. The two habitat modules include wet areas (sanitary and kitchen) - during particle events their water tanks also serve as storm shields. Medical racks are placed on the walls of the module. A retractable desk and two chairs are placed in racks as well. A retractable node to connect the rover modules as well as an EVA dock is provided.

Travelling and Settling Mode

Every base contains four units, two rover modules and two habitat modules. When the base is in ‘travelling mode’ the two habitat modules are placed below the rover modules. To ensure that the units are still able to move on uneven terrain the ‘legs’ of the rover are about 5 meters long. In ‘settling mode’ the rovers place the habitat modules on the ground and fold their feet so that the base elements can be connected.