Eleven Magazine has announced the winners of the international design competition ?Moontopia,? which asked architects to imagine a self-sufficient lunar colony designed for living, working, researching and space tourism.

Moontopia Competition Winner - TEST LAB. Image Courtesy of Eleven-Magazine.com

Eleven Magazine has announced the winners of the international design competition ?Moontopia,? which asked architects to imagine a self-sufficient lunar colony designed for living, working, researching and space tourism.From a pool of proposals from hundreds of applicants worldwide, 9 schemes were selected by an expert jury including space-architects, academics and NASA designers as the winners of the competition. Check out the winning projects below.Winner TEST LAB / Monika Lipinska, Laura Nadine Olivier and Inci Lize Ogun
TEST LAB / Monika Lipinska, Laura Nadine Olivier and Inci Lize Ogun. Image Courtesy of Eleven-Magazine.com

A medium-scale lunar colony, Test Lab invasions a base point in the frontline of space exploration and Lunar colonisation. Beautifully presented in their sheets, this winning team have developed a design which acts as an initial base on the Moon to conduct further testing on our satellite. The architecture can be allowed to grow and construct itself through a method of 3D printed self-assembly, gradually colonising the Moon over time. The most important structure of the Test Lab is the outer membrane. Based on a simple origami...