This project was my entry in the architectural contest of Jacques Rougerie Foundation competition in 2018. It was my first step into the world of futuristic visions that determined my further concern in a science fiction, new technologies and interplanetary travels.
* Visualizations does not show real proportions or distances between celestial objects.
How human solar expansion can look like?
Moon is rich on He3 that is rare here on Earth but can be new advanced fuel, there are thousands or millions of asteroids and many are rich on rare metals and minerals. Because a gravity for so «small» objects does not melt all heavy metals into liquid core, they can be gathered a lot easier and in a lot bigger quantities than it is here, on Earth.
There already exist concepts how to gather and mine asteroids, we already making attempts for establishment of a Moon or Mars bases, so this is beginning of our first steps to inhabit space.
After the establishment of Mars colony there will be a base for further expansion, so Asteroid belt can be the next important step.
This is an extremely valuable area, but for efficient work of this system ,there have to be colonies or bases where all logistic can happen, and where colonists can stay for a while, and there have to be propellant depots that will serve as replenishment points for cargo and passenger vehicles.
The main idea of the station is to create an artificial gravity by rotating. It could be rotation a whole asteroid, but it causes many problems, so solution of this project is to rotate station inside an asteroid.
Production facilities, warehouse or life support system does not need artificial gravity and accompanying additional energy consumption to work, so whole station is separated in 3 parts (service facilities, habitation centrifuge and farms).
Different bug, mushrooms, aeroponical, hidroponical farms or laboratories can be located in the farm block.
Here everything is carried by a support system that uses incoming waste, gray water and a noxious air (1.) to create healthy environments and nutrients for plants, animals and mushrooms (2b.). After a fresh air and clean water goes to a service facilities block life support system (2c.) where can be modified for better use in the station.
Farms are perpendicular to a habitation centrifuge so plants can gather a light from the central block (which works as an artificial sun), and this creates a «green» background for the inhabitants of the station.
* the numbers are accorded to the numbers in the scheme of Farm block.
All production facilities, warehouses, data servers, electric motor etc. are in the service facilities block, where people are needed only for a short time for a service automatized systems. So the heat that these all facilities are creating can be used for heating the station.
An important part of this block is a life support system, where an incoming gray water and a noxious air (1.) will be primarily cleaned and separated in parts (2.), than mixed with air and water from farms (2c.) and additionally mineralized, recomposed as best as possible (3.) for people inside, and transported to the habitation centrifuge (4.).
* the numbers are accorded to the numbers in the scheme of Service facilities.
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