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Mars Science City

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Client

Government of United Arab Emirates

Typology

Space

Size m2/ft2

56,810 / 611,503

Status

Idea

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 — Robots will first dig a perimeter allowing the first level of the building to be below ground.

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 — Robots will increase the rate of construction and reduce the amount of human labor.

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 — Then they will construct buffer buildings for future additional domes that may be added later.

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 — Interconnected spaces are created.

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 — The pressurized dome creates the basic environment necessary for people to work, allowing the rest of the construction process to be done safer and faster.

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 — The protection layering and integration with plant life above the 3D-printed nodules will ensure a safe and pleasant environment that can be experienced at different scales.

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"When you begin to inhabit a world that has no existing eco-system, environmentalism takes on a whole new meaning. The challenge is not to preserve the existing environment, but rather to design and engineer a whole new man-made ecosystem, making us take the step up from custodians to creators of our own little Martian circle of life."
Bjarke Ingels - Founder and Creative Director, BIG
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Partner in Charge

Bjarke Ingels

Jakob Lange

Andreas Klok Pedersen

Project Leader

Dimitrie Grigorescu

Project Team

Andrea Terceros Barron

Diana Daoud

Teodor Cristian Fratila

Ivaylo Ignatov

Joanna M. Lesna

Luca Pileri

Mattia Di Carlo

Ovidiu Munteanu

Paula Madrid

Tyrone Cobcroft

Viktoria Millentrup

Yasmin Asan

João Albuquerque

BIG Engineering

Andy Coward

Cæcilie Søs Brandt-Olsen

Duncan Horswill

BIG Ideas

Tore Banke

Hugo Yun Tong Soo

Kristoffer Negendahl

Yehezkiel Wiliardy Manik

BIG Landscape

Ulla Hornsyld

Christian Eugenius Kuczynski

Joanna Anna Jakubowska

Sze Ki Wong

Collaborators

Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre

Dubai Municipality

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BIG Ideas

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