ABIBOO Studios has released video and images showing what their architects believe could be the first city on Mars. Named Nüwa, it would have been built in the Tempe Mensa area.
On their website, ABIBOO explains how they have focused on “self-sustaining development” when designing the city.
They said: “The city of Nüwa is on the slope of one of the Martian cliffs, with ample water access, located at Tempe Mensa.
“Steep ground allows for the creation of a vertical city that is embedded in the rock, protected from radiation and meteorites while being exposed to indirect sunlight.
“Sustainability, but especially self-sustaining development is at the heart of Nüwa’s design.
“To be self-sustaining, settlement on Mars needs to be able to access all the resources locally.
“After a short period of reliance on capital investments and supplies from the Earth, the system should be able to sustain growth with local resources only.”
The designs for Nüwa were made by ABIBOO architects in collaboration with scientists, who provided information on what Mars needs to support human life.
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In a statement given to Express.co.uk, the ABIBOO team said: “According to the technical study of our team and the scientists at SONet, we estimated that by 2054 we could start building a settlement like Nüwa on Mars.
“However, this is not the year when we start building it, as some in the media are showing.
“As we continue to work with our partners and raise awareness and funding, we will provide a more precise timeline.”
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Nüwa is one of five cities designed by ABIBOO, serving as the capital for the planned network.
They said in a press release: “Apart from Nüwa, the rest of the cities are following the same urban strategy, such as Abalos City, which is located in the North Pole to gain access to the North Pole. ice, or Marineris City, located in the widest canon. of the solar system.
“The solution is a flexible and scalable model that can be easily used in many other Martian surface areas. “
ABIBOO’s Nüwa was in the final round among 175 projects from around the world, submitted to the 2020 competition by the Mars Society, an American nonprofit organization.
The finalists presented their proposals at the 2020 annual conference held from October 15 to October 18, which was also attended by Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX.
Mr Musk has always been vocal about settling on Mars, believing that SpaceX will launch rockets on the Red Planet “long before 2030”.
He said on Twitter: “SpaceX will be launching Starships on Mars long before 2030.
“The really hard threshold is to make Mars Base Alpha self-sustaining.”
It also plans to build 1,000 Starship rockets and launch three of them each day to send one million people to Mars.