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Here's the thing: I am the leading designer of a team of undergraduate architecture students and we are currently on a competition about Innovative Moon Base. Approximately 3 months ago I created a topic wanted ideas( Which is not so appropriate now that I think of it). (LINK: ) I figured out the overall design a month after that thread, but I couldn't say it does many help to our design scheme, because at that point I havn't have many clues about what we should focus on. We completed our work and submited last month. Several days earlier we got reply that we are in the finalists of 18 teams. We need to give a live presentation and Q&A to the juries about 2 weeks later. This is our first time for everything and I thought it might be good to do have a Q&A practice, which can also deepen our own understanding of our project. Here's our work of 3(or 2?) months: 2 The description inside the drawings might be hard to read, here's the simplified verson of some of the texts: ( Schem Description This scheme provided a paradigm design of lunar base, considering construction method, cost, and In-situ resource utilization. The system including: a. A modular, expandable habitat with deployable structure, consisting of rigid bone and flexible enclousure, along with multi-purpose flexible active reflector supporting structure. Enclousure enhanced with lunar-regolith bags; b. A multi-docking-ports node module; c. and a solar power tower deployed on-site with solar collector deployed in nearby ridge top. Site description Marks on the map display the location of sunlight resource, waterice resource, and gentle routes to these location. Also hillshade(provide radiation protection), and Earth visiblity. The yellow triangle icon are solar collectors located on ridge tops which are illumiate by the sun most of the time. The collectors provide high density sunbeam to its service zone(covering across the map), transmited solar energy to the active reflector on the building and then to the solar power tower. The site represented in the red box has direct visibility to Earth and is shaded from radiation and sunlight by the south pole ridge half of the lunar day. The site's slope is between 0°to 5°. The Launching&landing area close to the site and is lower than it. The regolith on the area is sinstered by pre-deploy solar collectors, which reduce the risk of debris ejection while operating, with relatively small transportation cost. The Habitat's Deployable Structure The habitat module's structure is folded to minimize volume while transport. Figure on lower right show the bone structure(blue) and reflector supporting structure(yellow) unfolding. After structure deploy,The Airlock/Node(carrying initial payload) will be installed to provide acess to the habitat. The Solar Power Tower The Solar Power Tower when receiving high density sunbeam from the solar collectors, can provide heated steam and electricity to the site, and also serve as a visual navigation beacon. The cryo tank inside can be reused as hydrogen storage after landing, and engines can be reused. Regolith Hyperadobe Enclosure Wall The lunar regolith on the landing area is rammed/sinstered by solar collectors deploy nearby before the habitat deploy. Then robot build semicircle regolith wall around the deployed habitat with regolith and bags fill with regolith using method similar to hyperadobe architecture on Earth, providing radiation protection during the lunar day. Water Sacks sew onto the flexible enclousure The water sacks are sewing onto the flexible enclousure. In the case of Micometeoroids impact causing enclousure breach, the water would quickly suck out from the sack, to the cold vacuum and freeze, provide a temporary seal. ) ps: The whole system is rather complex and I am currently trying to organized it. I would appreciate questions about the design from you, and do my best to answer them.