LAVA HIVE - NASA 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, 2015 - 3rd Prize

LIQUIFER Systems Group, Vienna, Austria and European Space Agency ESA, EAC Spaceship LavaHive is a modular 3D-printed Mars habitat using a novel construction technique called ‘lava-casting’. The habitat is made from the readily available surface material found on Mars, called regolith and uses the abundant energy resource of the sun to construct the habitat. This process is called In-situ Resource Utilisation and can allow the next stage of human exploration; once construction is virtually freed from the