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Sky Lake is a visionary environmental design that uses the natural geological cavities and excavated landscapes (from mining and large scale 3D printing) on the Moon to provide new vision for long term habitation. Utilising the ability of water to protect from radiation Sky Lake creates a layer of water above craters, quarries, and caves. These large climatised spaces allow for enhanced living conditions and larger-scale terraforming experimentation including diverse biological environments that have controllable microclimates. It provides wider freedom of movement, the ability to work in sunlight, and even the possibility to create rain.
From architecture to bioengineering, from astronaut psychology to collaborating with nature this project encompasses every aspect of space exploration. Sky Lake is radically different to most Lunar designs and approaches Lunar living from a new perspective. What would it mean to be able to place your bare foot in the lunar dust? The paper is available via ResearchGate. Sky Lake was originally conceived during Feral director, Aoife van Linden Tol's, art residency at the ESA - European Space Agency in 2017. Since then Feral have teamed up with with Bernard Foing from Euro Moon Mars & International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILWEG), Monika Brandić Lipińska from Bio Futures for Transplanetary Habitats and Emma Greenwood-George from Dorset Bio Solutions & BiomiTech to develop the design concept and begin exploring feasibility. |