Through mutual friends, they got in touch with Per Lundahl Thomsen, Chief Consultant at DTU Space.
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On the one hand, they needed to know how to develop a prototype moon habitat that could be scaled up and function in space-and on the other, they needed to know more about Greenland’s climatic conditions and the problems of handling bears, logistics, transport, and rescue etc. In 2020, they set out to build and test their own lunar LUNARK habitat in Greenland.īefore leaving, however, they needed help to learn more about outer space and Greenland. They later spent two months at the International Space University summer school, where together with engineering students they were inspired by presentations from space agencies from the United States, Japan, and Israel. Here they designed a primitive Mars shelter inspired by the seeds of a dandelion, while the surface was based on the idea of harvesting static electricity from dust and sandstorms on Mars. In 2018, they founded SAGA Space Architects in Copenhagen and won the international competition ‘Dandelion Shelter’. It’s also about creating joie de vivre, psychological well-being, and mental surplus.”įor Sebastian and Karl-Johan, the idea of building inhabited environments in outer space began when they studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture. “If you really want a permanent civilization outside of Earth, it’s not just about meeting people’s basic needs such as food, water, and oxygen. “Where all other space missions focus on making electronics, power, water, and oxygen supply work, we have tried to create an environment where many people will be able to thrive in space over a longer period of time,” says Sebastian. The ambition was to investigate how the extreme moon-like environments affected their mental and physical well-being-a project that differs from other similar projects that typically explore how to survive in space. This was done with the help of DTU Space. Last year, the two architects Karl-Johan Sørensen and Sebastian Aristotelis Frederiksen tested their newly developed and architect-designed habitat in the area surrounding a disused titanium mine in North Greenland. Nor is it deterring the architectural firm SAGA Space Architects. However, the inhospitable conditions are not deterring the world’s space nations from dreaming of building habitable bases for people on the Moon. In addition, you have to contend with very fine moon dust which-in much the same way as volcanic ash-finds its way into everything. There is no atmosphere here and the cosmic radiation coming from the universe is radioactive. During the day it rises to 130 degrees and at night it drops to almost minus 160 degrees.
The temperature on the surface of the Moon varies enormously.
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