{"id":692218,"date":"2021-06-04T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692218"},"modified":"2021-06-04T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T10:10:00","slug":"life-beyond-earth-venice-biennale-lunar-habitat-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=692218","title":{"rendered":"Life Beyond Earth: Venice Biennale lunar habitat video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Life_Beyond_Earth_Venice_Biennale_lunar_habitat_video_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A detailed concept for a lunar habitat, created by one of the world\u2019s leading architectural firms with ESA technical support, is currently on show at the Biennale in Venice. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.som.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill<\/a>, originator of many of the world\u2019s tallest skyscrapers, worked with ESA on a semi-inflatable habitat design which could be part of a long-term vision for an international Moon settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting design is on show at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/architecture\/2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">La Biennale di Venezia<\/a>. While the theme of the overall exhibition is \u2018How will we live together?\u2019, the SOM installation is called \u2018Life Beyond Earth\u2019, peering beyond our post-COVID-19 planet to show how human life can be sustained in the hostile space environment.<\/p>\n<p>The installation encompasses two large-scale, physical models and this film, bringing Biennale visitors on a journey from Earth to the Moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>SOM designed a semi-inflatable shell structure to offer the highest possible volume to mass ratio. Once inflated on the lunar surface, it would reach approximately double its original internal volume.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of work went into the four-storey habitat interior, in terms of lighting conditions, reconfigurable features, and a high floor to ceiling space, to allow crew members to take advantage of lunar one-sixth g using grabbing bars and other simple aids.<\/p>\n<p>Its chosen site has been described as the most desirable real estate in the Solar System: the rim of Shackleton crater beside the lunar South Pole. Avoiding the crippling temperature extremes of the Moon\u2019s two-week days and nights, this location offers near-continuous sunlight for solar power, an ongoing view of Earth and access to lunar water ice deposits in adjacent permanently-shadowed craters.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/06\/Life_Beyond_Earth_Venice_Biennale_lunar_habitat_video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Life Beyond Earth: Venice Biennale lunar habitat video<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A detailed concept for a lunar habitat, created by one of the world\u2019s leading architectural firms with ESA technical support, is currently on show at the Biennale in Venice. Skidmore,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692219,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}