MArch Portfolio - Mars Colonisation - Matthew Chamberlain

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FINAL PRESENATION FEEDBACK [ADVANCING THE DESIGN]

At the final presentation my city was broken down into two main parts. The central biodome and the living colony around it. The fundamental issue with what I had designed related to air pressure. On Mars the atmosphere is so thin that air contained simply wants to expand. I was therefore unloading potentially huge amounts of pressure of the walls of the dome. Furthermore, reducing rather than increasing the amount of contact directly with air pressure of the surface on Mars would be better. Therefore I started developing the design further, pulling more of the design undergrounds


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