Danish company SAGA Space Architects has been designing habitats for some of the world’s most challenging environments: desert, underwater, and arctic conditions. Their latest design picks up where NELMA’s Sustainable Design Awards (NELMA’s iconic design competition from 2018 introduced design student to the concept of building with wood on the moon) left off – SAGA is using wood to design moon habitat interiors. But why?
The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently finalizing a recreation of the moon’s surface to train astronauts for Artemis, a moon trip planned for 2027. SAGA’s has designed a habitat as part of an 1000 m2 facility to simulates a real lunar base. Sebastian Aristotelis, Co-Founder and Lead Architect for SAGA explains, “traditionally, space architecture is made of plastic, aluminium, steel, and nylon – and it’s white. We wanted to show that the space architecture of the future could be organic. We use wool, cork, felt, and plywood for structures and interiors, wherever possible.” That’s why – to make the moon feel more like home with products that create a more natural surrounding. So why don’t we do this more on our home planet? Why use synthetic, chemically-derived products here on earth?
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*all photos from: saga.dk
