HexHab 1.0 Mars 3D Printed Habitat 

PYRAMIDS: Perhaps we should build space habitats, on the Moon and Mars, just as our ancestors built the pyramids. They are the most economical use of 3d printing, inflatable habitats, and multiple story building. They also provide the most economical and quickest way to guard against micro-meteorites and radiation. You must ensure that you can move machinery, equipment & stores to the appropriate level within the habitat, and pyramids provide a smooth ramp to every level. This approach basically involves blocks of polymer-infused regolith, surrounding a space filled with tamped loose regolith, containing walled empty space for habitation, or even just stacked inflatable modules, and a helical ramp just inside the blocks, with access to each level, to move things around. Robots could collect and distribute regolith, make blocks of amalgum, tamp regolith, move equipment critical stores and habitat structural elements into place. And just why would you need windows, if you have cameras outside and video projectors inside the habitat? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-j4cdDT1ZvAA.html

I think more underground construction is needed, not just a dome above ground.

So far, I very much like it, very practical and realistic looking. Now, if it were me, I would add one more floor if it were all possible...

I wonder do they realize that the hexagon isn't really a hexagon. it's just a circle with other flexible circles next to it. bubbles next to bubbles. squash them together slightly and they naturally make a hexagon. it's basically a way of fitting circles in a closer more compact way.

A better solution is to separate the functions of radiation shielding from pressure vessel. Martian regolith in simple heaps or bags can block radiation while having enough compressive strength to be stacked and form a dome. Inside of that inflatable Trans-Hab derived pressure vessels would act as living spaces, and a small air gap between the two would minimize heat loss.

so good

LMFAO he sounds so serious, knowing full well what WEGO Explain is

It's good for secondary builds. Not for primary builds.

All this equipment you would need on the surface?? How would you bring all of that to Mars ?

Way to long indeed. Cut that to at least 2 months but no more than 3 months. Livable for more than 3 years just in case and be able to build attachments (additions) as needed. Habitants may get claustrophobia after living in a closed, windowless habitat.

i'm guessing, haveing the space suits ALWAYS outside is not really a great idea !???!!, one really bad storm and say goodbye to the space suits.

What I like: 1. Well hexagon shape, it good for storage, round walls make it hard to store boxes 2. It looks functional. Neutral point: 1. The elevator will need carried to mars or the moon, it might less expensive to 3d print a stairway, but it depends on how people move in low gravity environment. Some design ideas that might be considered is inner / outer wall, for radiation protection and isolation. The bad: There were no talk about heating and plumbing, power, cleaning features, and waste disposal, if you're going to stay up on mars or the moon, you will need to take care of this things. You also need a place to make food, maybe secondary building.

Thank you all for your comments. The next iteration of the HexHab design is now posted on the site as HexHab 2.0. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UYyyqOcJNbw.html Although we did not make the top 3 design choices by NASA, we placed 4th out of 11 entries in the competition.

Awesome! I just wouldn't use ladders in case of astronaut injury, which could result in them not being able to climb the ladder.

What if ! The big question ! What likely to go wrong. Strong winds,floods,comets, Radiation,alien invasion, Alien animal invasion that maybe living under ground. Habitat is the life line until the planet is up and running.

Very interesting and substantial structure. not making direction reference to structures,,,it will be hard work for first settlers,,one way ticket to mars,,,12 hour plus shifts,,hard life.

With the various corporations presenting their "printed habitats" we are seeing the call out to investors , these videos are becoming sales "brochures" there is no doubt we will start seeing high tech "billboards" promoting "Off World positions vacant" with these corporations in our very near future.....

I might eventhere to say that I see 5 people living there, easily..., the more realistic aprouch I have seen so far, how ever, it takes to long to be ready....

OK---------- Very good design but as you said you have a problem with losing heat. Also the thickness of the hull works out to be a little thin for any large hundred year solar event not to mention Cosmic rays. Doubling the thickness would help considerably using a strong inner hull 800 cm thick for an internal pressure of 14 lbs Earth normal making life more comfortable (while making plants in the greenhouse (Oops you don't have one) and/or scattered through the hab grow better) and simplified packed 600 cm outer hull for radiation shielding with a plastic and plant fiber (from the Greenhouse) insulation between them. An inner plastic bubble against the airside of the hull would simplify air permeating through the regolith problems as well as insulation and comfort. You also did not seam to have worked out joining several habs together in your demonstration even though it would have been simple to do and much safer. --------- Not to criticize your basic design. But a horizontal half moon tube with a hull of only 100 cm thick, would have enabled you to make a long two story Hab with greater total square footage for the same cubic feet or meters, of printing material, faster. Then covering the whole hab in simply packed regolith to obtain the needed radiation shielding and heat insulation with a thickness closer to 2,000 to 4,000 cm's plus. The plastic coating on the inside would have sealed the hull from leaks and moisture penetrating the hull and freezing. An even worse problem without the inner plastic layer. With Air pressure providing most of the material support until the outer regolith was well packed then hardened naturally over time. Even if you printed the habe in several sections with short connecting tunnels for safety against accidents losing some length providing several end caps, you still get 6 to 10 times the living, greenhouse and working area than in your design which has no back up habs or sections for accidents and disasters. --------- Sorry. You fail. But I like your printing process.

It's a good idea but i think that the idea of AI-SpaceFactory is more viable

That's so cool!

Shweet! Does Mars atmosphere protect from cosmic rays? Or are water tiles needed on walls? Hexagonal is pronounced like diagonal..

when do we go to mars i want to go

Também pode dar certo, uma câmara inflável, e dentro da câmara, um alambrado armável, do formato de cúpula. Depois, fixa com hastes, semelhante ao de circo.

The spelling mistake within 30 seconds doesn't fill me with confidence

Desain luar angkasa mencapai apa yg diharapkan manusia di abad now. Allahhu Akbar

Does it also come with one "G" gravity to?

Don't we need more carbon dioxide on Mars for the atmosphere

Hello.

Let’s Go!

And were are they going t live meanshile?

Welcome to another episode of Fantasy Island.

I've never been to Mars or even the Moon. 😢

I don't wanna live there. Earth is good

Your graphics need major work. The Marsha Team presentation is much more polished.

1 1/2 year build time! thats way too long.

Interesting design, but do you plan to do about the perchlorate in the regolith?