Marsception 2018 Design Competition, Volume Zero Architecture Contest
Marsception 2018 Design Competition
International Residential Architectural Contest – simple yet resourceful living
Sep 10, 2018
Marsception 2018 Design Competition
Marsception 2018 Architecture Competition
We announce the winners of this recent architectural competition, Marsception2018, one that challenged the participants to envision a habitat for the first five colonizers on the Red Planet where they would research on the viability of life for the future human generations would live there; a habitat that would define a trend for the architecture of the upcoming human civilization on Mars.
The jury for the architecture competition consisted of esteemed designers Daniel Caud (Tetrarc), Dr. Margot Krasojevi (Margot Krasojevi? Architecture), Shahin Heidari (New Wave Architecture) and Britta Knobel Gupta (Studio Symbiosis) The top three winners were awarded a total prize money of $4000 while ten entries received honourable mentions.
Here are the winning entries. The full results for the Marsception 2018 Architecture Competition can be found on https://competition.volzero.com/
FIRST PLACE

Participants: Thomas Goessler (Austria)

The human base is proposed to be situated in the area of Arcadia Planitia and entails different survival aspects for its habitants. The vision of the design is ?a self-sustaining system which not only provides humans with what is necessary to survive but also fulfils th...