Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet.
Named Seed of Life, the conceptual colony design comprises a series of structures woven from bamboo by autonomous robots.
Malaysian designers  Zaki and Amzar designed the proposal to demonstrate that there may be alternative ways of building on Mars that do not rely on shipping material from earth or 3D printing.

"After doing a lot of research on Mars colonisation, we realised that half of the ideas would go about deploying fully synthetic materials made on earth to build shelters, while the other half is about using the locally available regolith," Zaki and Amzar told Dezeen.
"We tried to find something in between, a balance of natural material from earth and advanced technology."
To create the buildings, Zaki and Amzar envision farming bamboo on Mars and using the material the build the structures.
"Human civilisation has yet to build anything on any other planet outside of Earth. That fact alone opens up infinite possibilities of what could or should be used," explained the designers.
"Sure, 3D printing seems to be a viable proposition, but with thousands of years worth of experience and techniques in shelter construction, why shouldn?t we tap on other alternatives too""

Each modular pod in the colony would be built over a period of six years, with explorers landing and locating underground froze...