Amazing 3D-Printed House made for Mars

Technology is constantly evolving and sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Believe it or not, but one day life on Mars could become a reality, and this 3D-printed house could help us tremendously!

A 3D-printing company called Fabulous, teamed up with architects and scientists to compete in the 3D-printed Habitat Challenge. The challenge was to encourage innovation in the area of 3D-printing and develop a shelter on Mars using local materials or recycled materials from spacecraft.

The team from France managed to design an amazing house that is actually a lot nice than majority of the flats we see nowadays.

This is a house that can actually build itself, starting off as a rod drilled deep into the crust on Mars. So, the house is roughly 50% underground.

The rod that is drilled into the crust has two robotic arms that extend and use the iron oxide in the planets crust to print the shell of the building. These mechanical arms will also gather permafrost from the surface of the planet to create an outer layer of water, which will stop anyone from getting fried like an egg because of the solar radiation.

They named the house Sfero, which is a combination of the words “Sphere”, “Iron” and “Water”. To be honest Sfero doesn’t look like a bad place to hang out in at all!

A spiral staircase joins the first floor with the second floor; the bottom floor features beds that drop from the ceiling in a futuristic fashion. On the main floor you will find a few work stations that could possible double as a kitchen bar, while a top mezzanine layer lets you grow plants. Remember, Mars isn’t the best place to grow crops.

Looks like NASA got more than they were expecting with the amazing Sfero design!

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