Space Architecture
Architecture and habitat design for space environments, orbital structures, and extraterrestrial settlements.
Sky Dome: 3D-Printed Mud Domes Hover Over Rubble Stone Rooms in a Syrian Courtyard
Clustered mud shells float above rubble stone rooms, while a raised red route stitches the courtyard back into the blocks that surround it.
SpaceDNA Splits a Compact Coimbatore Plot into Interlocking Half-Levels Around a Folded Terracotta Stair
In Coimbatore, Splitscape Residence fits 245 m² onto a 114 m² plot by working in section, with half-levels, round nooks and a folded stair at its core.
Atrium Architekti Turns a 1960s Košice Steelworks Dormitory into 507 Micro-Apartments
In Košice, Slovakia, a 13-storey panelák workers' hostel is stripped back to terrazzo and precast concrete, then fitted with coral steel and copper mesh.
Lunar Stalactite: A Habitat That Grows Downward From the Moon's Ceiling
Suspended inside a lava tube beneath the lunar surface, this colony inverts settlement logic by hanging architecture from cavern rock.
Algal Realm: A Lunar Habitat Where Biology Replaces Machinery
Bioengineered algae drive oxygen production, construction, food supply, and energy generation in this speculative Moon settlement.
LUNA BASE: A Lunar Settlement Organised Like a Solar System Around a Planted Core
Corinna Kollert's shortlisted Moon Base 2124 entry rings geodesic domes around a garden dome, turning vegetation into the base's infrastructure.
Lunar Spiral: A Fibonacci-Driven Moon Settlement Rising from Shackleton Crater
Golden-spiral geometry organises buried infrastructure and orbiting habitable spheres into a lunar base designed to grow as life on the Moon expands.
New Memory: A Color-Coded Medina Where Senior Living Becomes a Way of Remembering
Meryem's Editor's Choice entry for Co-Life turns color, shaded courtyards and Medina streets into a wayfinding system for older residents in Temara.
Neo-Covenant: A Runner-up Settlement Where Returning Spacefarers Meet Lalibela's Underground Survivors
An expandable habitat in Lalibela, Ethiopia, fuses energy, food, research and memory into one artificial ecosystem for a humanity relearning Earth.
h-age: A Senior Living Neighbourhood Where Rooms Change as Residents Age
Julia Marques stacks private rooms above a porous public ground floor and designs units that shift between single, double and couple occupancy.
Pie in the Sky: A 300-Metre Hydrogen Airship That Moves the Farm to Wherever the Weather Is Good
Habiba Mukhtar treats climate as a route rather than a site, lifting 160 people, their crops and a closed resource loop into a drifting airborne village.
STELLAR-1: A Dandelion-Inspired Orbital Refuge Built for Humanity's Eventual Return to Earth
A space elevator and porous lattice shells turn an orbital colony into infrastructure that safeguards people, seeds and knowledge until Earth heals.
