Welcome to the future of architecture. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has released the conceptual design for the first full-time human habitat on the lunar surface, called “Moon Village.”
Their concept, still in its early days, proposes the living spaces are lightweight frames wrapped with pressurized skins–an aerospace technology that the ISS is already using through its year-old Bigelow inflatable module–mixing strength with weight savings,