Project Olympus: Humanity’s Future in Space
Project Olympus: Humanity’s Future in Space
- UrbanNext, October 30, 2020.
- 925 words.
BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUP, Essay, expanding design practices, ICON, Low Density, Technology and fabrication
3D printers, Collective research, Construction, Earth, Engineering, Extraterrestrial, Future projections, Humanity, Materials, Project, Sustainable, Technology, the Moon
“Building humanity’s first home on another world will be the most ambitious construction project in human history and will push science, engineering, technology, and architecture to literal new heights,” said Jason Ballard, Co-founder and CEO of ICON. “NASA’s investment in space-age technologies like this can not only help to advance humanity’s future in space, but also to solve very real, vexing problems we face on Earth. We are honored to begin our research and development on ICON’s “Project Olympus” and the “Olympus Construction System.”
2575-5374
NASA Architecture Technology Outer Space
BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUP, Essay, expanding design practices, ICON, Low Density, Technology and fabrication
3D printers, Collective research, Construction, Earth, Engineering, Extraterrestrial, Future projections, Humanity, Materials, Project, Sustainable, Technology, the Moon
“Building humanity’s first home on another world will be the most ambitious construction project in human history and will push science, engineering, technology, and architecture to literal new heights,” said Jason Ballard, Co-founder and CEO of ICON. “NASA’s investment in space-age technologies like this can not only help to advance humanity’s future in space, but also to solve very real, vexing problems we face on Earth. We are honored to begin our research and development on ICON’s “Project Olympus” and the “Olympus Construction System.”
2575-5374
NASA Architecture Technology Outer Space