Lunar Colony Dome View...

Lunar Colony Master Plan...

Lunar Colony Master Plan Diagrams

Lunar Locations...

We are quickly approaching midterm-review here in the Lunar Colony studio - I'll take this opportunity to go a little deeper into the location of the Lunar Colony and the dome. It's been stipulated that the dome size has been reduced from 25 miles in diameter to 2.5 miles. Using the lunar crater chart below, we determined an appropriate place to situate the dome.

This image is Lunar Chart: CLAVIUS LAC 126. It is located close to the south pole of the moon for purposes of providing optimal sunlight. [see picture below for close-up]

As you can see from the location chart, the location of the crater is in section 126 which is in the South-East direction of the South pole region of the moon.

Choosing an appropriately sized crater was left up to us as a group and after studying a few groups of craters [attempting to find a proper one as far south as possible], we decided upon Lunar Crater Lilius.

This image shows Lunar Crater "Lilius P" which is a satellite crater of the much larger Lilius. "Lilius P" is located at LATITUDE: 55.9 degrees S LONGITUDE 3.9 degrees E. "Lilius P" is 4km in diameter which is almost exactly 2.5 miles in diameter.

Preliminary Building Concepts...

Lunar Colony Transportation Proposal...

The following are schematic images of our proposal for a transportation system. The public transit system will be the only means of transportation in the dome

[with the exception of emergency vehicles.]

The "monorail" car will be able to accomodate anywhere from 4 to 20 people. The car acts as a membrane that reacts to the amount of people who board it [expanding and contracting to fit comfortably.]

Design details are still pending and will be further developed after the midterm-review.

More development details...

[housing example]

Some more sketches representing ideas we have about the colony design and details...

Additional housing concept

Preliminary design for public transportation services - hanging monorail that will be further developed into a transit system that wont impose upon the colony quite so much. Preferably something that has no wire system - possible track system proposed.

Lunar Colony Master Planning...

While we're still establishing a concrete master plan for the Lunar Colony, we are beginning to think about spaces and architectural elements under the dome. Below are some of our ideas that we are currently developing into our final Master Plan.

A beginning view of the dome and the very preliminary organizational elements of the dome such as docking/berthing portions for shuttle arrival and departure; general hydroponics areas, methods for emergency evacuation, subterranean factories and fabrication of modules [not mining as pictured], and also a general view of proposed platforms.

Proposed platforms and establishing a more three-dimensional view of the city.

Preliminary spatial diagram of proposed architecture within the dome - used as conceptual model for housing and other public buildings in the colony.


Working on specific details and further establishing permanant master plan.

Lunar Colony Master Plan Ideas...

The overall size of the dome has been reduced from 25 miles in diameter to 2.5 miles in diameter in an attempt to create a much more realistic amount of space that would exsist under the dome for a colony of 10,000 people.

Programmatic elements include:

Residential housing types for 10,000
Public places including: Visitors center, Cultural center, Hydroponic growing facilities,
Recreation/Fitness, and a K-8 school onsite.
The Civil buildings include a Courthouse/penal system building.
Industrial Facilities [mining and ISRU Facilities]
Commercial Facilities [small shopping areas]
Transportation facilities [electric car stations]\
Healthcare [hospital]
Farming/Hydroponics
Livestock [engineered livestock]
Religious [multi-denominational church]
Infrastructural [subterranean mining/factories]

Here are some preliminary sketches that we will further develop into a full-on Lunar Master plan.

This plan is a general geometric layout in an attempt to establish fractal elements within something that might eventually be considered an urban plan. These are simply to establish the idea of the fractal elements, they wont be used in our Lunar Colony master plan.

This concept is being considered a little more seriously. While the simple staggering of the modules can be used to create an organizational plan of sorts, we will use a much clearer mode of organization that isn't quite so random and that will estabilsh a clearer hierarchy within the colony limits.

This diagram is using the same method that was used in the previous diagram, only a color pattern was assigned to specific layers in order to create more depth within the individual layers. This was an attempt to take this methods product and create something more three-dimensional using a color pattern.

We will continue to develop this and other ideas... stay tuned.

Lunar Colony Plan Advancements...

The next step in the Lunar Colony design process is determining the urban structure. We've decided to take our module formation to next level and attempt to establish a fractal city. Below are some examples of what we eventually hope our fractal environment to resemble.

we will begin with a larger "modular form" that would be seen from space as colonists and visitors approach the dome upon arrival. As they get closer and closer the actual buildings and individual robotic elements, it would become clearer that the larger "modular form" seen from space would begin to become a fraction of itself and become smaller and smaller until it is recognized that it actually becomes individual building elements.

Preliminary Colony plans to come...