A Design for a Lunar Life? |

One of the first pieces of news I read this morning was a brief report that said that Russian scientists are exploring the possibilities of starting a colony on the moon.

Human beings could apparently live in the volcanic tunnels on the moon, starting in this way the first lunar colony.

Everything depends from the porosity of the moon and on finding out if the moon has a number of caves that can truly protect from radiation or meteor showers.

So what will it be like living on the moon (and what will be wearing up there)?

Artists, architects and designers often imagined a lunar life in extreme conditions, but, as explained by the Russian researchers, apparently there would be no need to dig the lunar soil as inflatable structures with hard outer shells to close the caves could be built on lunar landscape.

It may take another twenty years to see the first lunar colonies on the moon, in the meantime enjoy this picture showing a detail of the Monument to the Conquerors of Space (1964) in Moscow. I took it a few days ago on an architectural tour with my driver German (who will need a holiday the minute I leave…). The monument has a special dynamism about it, symbolising a rocket hurtling into the sky trailed by a jet stream and it somehow fits in with all the space age themes, astro hoods and rocket-shaped silhouettes we talked about during yesterday's lecture.

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