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International Competition — Selected Project
Ranked 49th among 12,000 submissions worldwide
The project imagines a 3D-printed habitat for the first human settlement on Mars: a self-sustaining architecture conceived for extreme isolation, limited resources and the psychological demands of life beyond Earth.
Set within the red desert of Nili Fossae, the proposal explores the habitat not only as a technical shelter, but as a fragile domestic world under an unfamiliar sky. Architecture becomes a protective envelope, a life-support system and a symbolic threshold between human presence and the vastness of an alien territory.
Through additive construction, local material logic and spatial compactness, the project investigates how a future Martian dwelling could sustain both survival and imagination.
Program: 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge
Location: Nili Fossae, Mars
Competition year: 2015
Project scenario: 2035
Organised by NASA and America Makes
Selected project — ranked 49th among 12,000 submissions worldwide
XIII National Architecture Biennale, Venezuela
Category winner — Special Prize for Projects Outside Venezuela, 2019
Authors: Karla Montauti and Alejandro Garcés
Acknowledgements: Rodrigo Vela and Daniel Hidalgo
Video: Zapata Films
2019-11-15_Pandora Magazine. Resistance and diaspora Contemporary creation of Venezuelan authors. (Pags. 170-177). España
2019-02-18_El Universal. Resultados XIII Bienal Nacional Arquitectura. Proyectos realizados fuera de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela
2019-03-04_CAV Noticias. Resultados XIII Bienal Nacional Arquitectura. Proyectos realizados fuera de Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela