Even better, NASA already loves it.

The Future of Living

AI SpaceFactory is a design agency building habitats fit for Mars. Recently the winner of NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat contest—receiving $500,000 for their efforts—their habitat MARSHA can be 3D printed with digital intelligence in just 30 hours.

From the MARSHA page:

MARSHA is a first principles rethinking of what a Martian habitat could be – not another low-lying dome or confined, half-buried structure but a bright, multi-level, corridor-free home that stands upright on the surface of Mars. Where structures on Earth are designed primarily for gravity and wind, Martian conditions require a structure optimized to handle internal atmospheric pressure and thermal stresses. AISpaceFactory on MARSHA design

MARSHA aims to target mental health just as heavily as functional design. The agency has stated their design choices are reflective of a healthy mind on Mars, and future design choices will build on that platform of inhabitant mental health.

Each habitat is radiation-proof, nonconductive, and made from sustainable material that can be acquired and processed right on Mars.

AI SpaceFactory claims each home can be built and ready for living before inhabitants arrive to the planet. Again, that’s a short 30-hour process.

Consisting of four levels, the design allows indirect natural light to flow throughout, giving an Earthly feel to every inhabitant. There are completed rooms for full privacy, and capped with a skylight.

MARSHA Interior

With material producers Techmer PM, MARSHA is a mixture of basalt fiber (extracted from Martian rock) and renewable bioplastic processed by plants grown on Mars.

MARSHA’s Earth-Twin, TERA

MARSHA isn’t alone. AI SpaceFactory is developing a synonymous habitat TERA, a near-identical beacon habitat for here on Earth.

The best part is, you can pre-book your stay right now. Happy Martian living!

Dubbed with things like, “Future of living” and “Space-tech act getaway”, it’s hard not to get excited about sustainable living when it looks this sleek.

TERA sitting in upstate New York. Open for business March 2020.

There is only one TERA at the moment, ready for residents in March 2020. It currently sits in upstate New York along the Hudson River, promising undisturbed nature and a taste of Mars living.

AI SpaceFactory hopes to build more TERA units for living here on Earth, as each is an evolution of MARSHA as it continues to evolve.

Like MARSHA, TERA has four levels and all the luxury of the Mars habitat’s pearl white interior. The composite it’s built from is 50% stronger and more durable than concrete, all while being environmentally friendly.

Renewable technologies to save this planet, while researching what’s needed to enable life on a new one. AI SpaceFactory on TERA reusability

Twin Sisters

Each Earth habitat (including the current TERA unit) is to be constructed directly from pieces of MARSHA, when possible. This way production stays as renewable as possible, and you can even see the award -winning MARSHA broken up and boxed for recycling here.

This also makes TERA a continuous work in progress, and we can expect to see many TERA iterations as MARSHA is further analyzed for improvements.

MARSHA won’t be seeing Mars for some time still, but when it does each home will be ready for sustainable living on the red planet, while simultaneously improving TERA here on Earth.

With a quick $500,000 in their pocket, we can expect to hear more updates on both habitation projects very soon.

(AI SpaceFactory home)