Location: Valles Marineris, Mars

Competition: Marsception 2018

Project BRIEF

Since the start of time, we humans have been captivated by the mystical nature of other celestial bodies surrounding our Planet Earth. This fascination has been translated to works of astronomy, astrology, architecture and many other studies from making a simple telescope to humankind’s first steps on the Moon. This unending drive for exploration has today led us to understanding our neighboring solar systems and galaxies, thousands of light years away. The last few centuries have seen our Mother Earth grappling with mounting pressure towards her resources due to mankind’s quest for a better life. This persistent pressure has now compounded into unpredictable and irrevocable changes in our climatic conditions and atmosphere. To relieve this mounting weight, we have been taking huge strides in our efforts to find resources on other planets like Mars for a clean and sustainable future. he previous decade has witnessed MARS as the center of attention for becoming a potential new habitat for the earth’s future population, resulting in a Martian race. With many visionary organizations and their ground-breaking explorative studies and research, the unseen future of inhabiting the Red Planet is now a real possibility; an opportunity to create a utopian tomorrow, making mankind a multi-planetary species.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

As part of a larger colonization effort by world space agencies and companies like SpaceX and Blue Origins, our proposal, known as M.A.R.S. [Manufacturing And Research System], is a fully functional architecture that inherently produces its own means of existence. Not intended as the first base camp on Mars, which will likely be a temporary lightweight structure brought from Earth, M.A.R.S. is a long-term strategic base for permanent colonization. Together the various components create a self-producing system capable of long-term habitation on Mars.

As such, M.A.R.S. operates on four assumptions that distinguishes itself from assumed Martian Basecamp paradigm:

• Space Exploration in reality is different than what is imagined.

• M.A.R.S. is established 50 years after initial Mars human landing.

• The facility will require botanists and geologists.

• By its very nature, the facility must be self-producing, not merely self-sustaining.

M.A.R.S. is a fully functional system that inherently produces its own means of existance. Drilling, mining, and production facilities on-site create the raw materials [iron / marscrete] to build the buildings. M.A.R.S., therefore, also provides habitation spaces for three botanists [vegetation production] and two geologists [mining].

With interplanetary travel for humans not a far-fetched idea and innovations made every day to make it a reality soon. It is now time to imagine and create a new civilization. A civilization the world has dreamed with an opportunity to design the future architectural prospect on the Red Planet for others to follow.

“At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big.”

-Elon Musk

power

Power is drawn from multiple redundant sources that connect as a system with the central facility. Solar is the primary power source // wind is secondary.

FOOD

Food is grown on site in five different facilities. Astro-biologists convene with horticulturists to create experimental agricultural techniques.

WATER

Water is collected in the remote water harvesters with radiate from the central facility ever 100 meters. The water is extracted from below the surface with drills and distributed to the Agricultural Center.

LIFE SAFETY

The Agricultural Center and Sleeping Quarters are located underground to protect plants and inhabitants from excess radiation and emergency weather situations.

The M.A.R.S. Project will continue to be developed over the upcoming years. Please stay tuned to our Work page for more information. To download high-res pdf of facility axonometric click here.