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Designing the First Full-Time Human Habitat on the Moon

SOM, in partnership with the ESA and MIT, wants to accommodate research and maybe even tourism on the moon.
The village would be primarily intended for researchers to further explore the Moon. It would be clustered close to the crater’s water-ice deposits so that water from the permanently shadowed depressions near the South Pole would be extracted to create breathable air and rocket propellant for transportation.
The village would be primarily intended for researchers to further explore the Moon. It would be clustered close to the crater’s water-ice deposits so that water from the permanently shadowed depressions near the South Pole would be extracted to create breathable air and rocket propellant for transportation.SOM/Slashcube GmbH
By
Nicole Javorsky

The first humans landed on the moon in 1969. Fifty years later, humans are figuring out how to live there.

Radiation, lack of breathable air, generating energy, and relying on rockets to transport building materials are among the challenges for humans settling on the moon. But it is possible to find solutions to these challenges, according to SOM Design Partner Colin Koop.