{"id":13818,"date":"2017-01-28T14:52:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T19:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13818"},"modified":"2017-01-28T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T19:52:46","slug":"moontopia-contest-entrants-design-lunar-colonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13818","title":{"rendered":"Moontopia contest entrants design lunar colonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eleven Magazine<\/a> sponsored a contest called\u00a0MOONTOPIA<\/a>, which invited people to submit designs “for a self-sufficient lunar colony for living, working, researching and space tourism”.\u00a0There were hundreds of entrants and they chose one winner and 8 runners-up. See descriptions of the nine designs at Moontopia<\/a> competition-winners show nine visions for lunar architecture – dezeen.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The winner was Lunar Test Lab<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Testlab settlement is based on the idea of the Russian Babushka Doll \u2013 one layer protects the next. On the very inside of the settlement are the Pods, which inhabit the private sleeping quarters, the communal rooms, the greenhouse, as well as the experimental labs and the necessary machinery to sustain life on the moon. Between the pods and the outer most protective membrane is the void that acts as yet another protective layer between livable and unlivable space.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is one of the runners-up called\u00a0Platinum City<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Inhabitants<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

3000 permanent \u2018post-human moon citizens\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

Size<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Currently spanning 7km from the city to the space elevator port and growing. Awaiting teraforming landscape update and expansion of the drone membrane artificial atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eleven Magazine sponsored a contest called\u00a0MOONTOPIA, which invited people to submit designs “for a self-sufficient lunar colony for living, working, researching and space tourism”.\u00a0There were hundreds of entrants and they chose one winner and 8 runners-up. See descriptions of the nine designs at Moontopia competition-winners show nine visions for lunar architecture – dezeen.com. The winner … Continue reading Moontopia contest entrants design lunar colonies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-space-settlement","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3AS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19071,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=19071","url_meta":{"origin":13818,"position":0},"title":"‘First Women on the Moon’ 2019 Essay Contest","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) and the Moon Village Association (MVA) are sponsoring the \u2018FIRST WOMEN ON THE MOON\u2019 2019 ESSAY CONTEST 200-Word Submission Due 10 October 2019 Grand Prize: All-expenses-paid participation at ILOA Galaxy Forum China: Hainan, 25-28 February 2020 provided by ILOA.\u00a0 And one-on-one Astronaut briefing(s) provided\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Contests and Games"","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"2019 FWotM Essay Contest Announcement","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-FWotM-Essay-Contest-Announcement-top-768x3561.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7755,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7755","url_meta":{"origin":13818,"position":1},"title":"RevUp Render Lunar Iditarod – racing lunar micro-rovers","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A readers points me to the debut of the\u00a0RevUp Render Lunar Iditarod,\u00a0a micro-rover contest involving stages of competition that ultimately will result in a race on the Moon as the final stage: Micro Rover Race The RevUp Render Lunar Iditarod is a micro rover race.\u00a0Participants will build very small rovers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Contests and Games"","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17355,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17355","url_meta":{"origin":13818,"position":2},"title":"Israel’s nonprofit SpaceIL lunar lander mission to include time capsule","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The Israeli non-profit SpaceIL organization now expects SpaceX to launch its lunar lander mission in February. 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