Habitat workstations

Interior of a lunar habitat module, intended as part of a future international ‘Moon Village’. The study was performed in partnership with the Department of Aeronautics at MIT and US architecture, interior design, engineering and urban planning firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). Their innovative proposal is an inflatable structural shell technology to be placed on the rim of Shackleton Crater near the lunar South Pole, offering access to near-continuous sunlight and lunar water ice deposits in adjacent ‘cold trap’ craters.