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1st Winner: Team - Mike Sudolsky, Brian Kato,  Ben Anderson- Nelson, Ann Hurt, Ashley Morgan, City: Denver, Country: United States

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Ideasforward is a very dynamic and creative architecture competition platform that gives young creative people from around the world the opportunity to express their views on the future of societies through their innovative and visionary proposals. The 7th edition of competition theme was ''Moon'' that explored new challenging settlements on the Moon. The program of the competition was to consider scientific research purposes that can be co financed by space tourism. According to the program, the competitors were invited to design a structure that can serve as a research lab as well as a place for space tourists to visit and stay for a determined time. The required areas were; 1 dormitory zone for crew and 1 for tourists, laboratory / observatory, docking ports (for incoming spacecrafts, kitchen / refectory, leisure zone / common area between crew and tourists and wc / spa. Ideasforward has selected 3 Winners and 7 Honorable Mentions that present many creative ideas with different use of materials and you can see all the winners with jury's comments below: 

1st Winner jury comments: “Caldera points, with the most impressive illustration, to a world where mankind has developed a small paradise under the harsh surface of the moon.” Luis Serina

“The use of subterranean room is one of the most viable projects, creating a new atmosphere where plants can grow and life can develop. The skylight system proposed  is also a well thoght idea.Furthermore, the panel is atractive using a section and a render to show the concept, the architecture is concise and precise.To sum up, this project deserves the first place due to many aspects gathered in one simple idea: A subterranean room.” Rafael González

“The winning project proposes to convert the existing structure of lava tubes into a parallel universe which makes the moon atmosphere suitable for humans. It´s a modular system which can be extended. This idea offers a new point of view for the cultivation and is an interesting approach to develop life on the moon!” Cathrin Bergscheider

“Caldera is a combination of an agricultural reasearch facility and a hotel. It is located beneath the moon’s surface. In former lava tubes a rich in species agriculture will be established. Travellers can attend the phases of the development from their rooms hanging off the ceiling surrounded by plants or taking a walk through the fields. A question left is where comes the light from? But still visionary”. Christina-Kappich

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2nd Winner: Team: Nicolás Barrena Lázaro, City: Madrid, Country: Spain

“The project re-thinking tourism provides an extremely appealing proposal to such a challenging goal. The complexity of the problem is very well addressed by combining virtual reality, mind mapping and reality into an harmonious image, which pushes the mind to believe in the outcome.” Luis Serina  

“Tourism on the moon may be possible. This project goes deeper in this idea presenting it in a very atractive diagram. However the space proposed stays only in a regular basic aircraft.”Rafael González

“This proposal gives an interesting idea of a new kind of tourism and traveling. It´s an interesting concept which an educational effect.”Cathrin Bergscheider

“This project is a concept – thinking travelling and tourism as a scientific game – and not architectural design.Three different roles are offered, tourist, scientist and earthling. Journey time is 30 days. Within this period the three groups are interacting with each other. Giving travellers this extraordinary experience of having a task exploring and researching the moon together is a special benefit.” Christina-Kappich

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3rd Winner: Team: Claire Gaspin, David Emmons, City: Chicago, Country: United States

“Moonboxes concept makes us believe in a Safari on the moon, through a vivid and compelling illustration, transmitting the feeling that everybody could do it one day, which is a powerful message”. Luis Serina    

“Moonboxes propose to mix pure architecture with a regular aircraft. The safari proposal throught a mobile room offers an unique experience to the tourist.” Rafael González

“This projects shows a classic way of a tourism project with a clear and functional design.It´s easy to imagine this project as real!” Cathrin Bergscheider

“Keep it simple – put a hotel room on a caterpillar. Why not?” Christina-Kappich

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Honorable Mention: Team: Joe Roberts, City: Bristol, Country: United Kingdom

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Honorable Mention: Team: Jakub Pietryszyn, Maciej Rebisz, Joanna Konefal, City: Stalowa Wola, Country: Poland

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Honorable Mention: Team: Aleksandra Plotnikova, City: Kazan, Country: Russian Federation

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Honorable Mention: Team: Nurhayat Oz, Sinan Gunay,  City: Istanbul, Country: Turkey

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Honorable Mention: Team: Ondrej Havlín, Jakub Kolman, City: Brno, Country: Czech Republic

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Honorable Mention: Team: Kangwoo (Kenny) Chun, Minhwa Lee, City: Seoul, Country: Korea South

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Honorable Mention: Team: Luiz Eduardo Lupatini, City: Passo Fundo, RS, Country: Brazil

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