由美国国家航空航天局（NASA）提供资助，ICON公司的OLYMPUS项目是支持未来探月的首个太空建筑系统

Nasa-funded project underway for icon’s “project olympus” - the first off-world construction system to support future exploration of the moon

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BIG建筑事务所与尖端建筑技术（包括机器人、软件和建筑材料）开发商ICON以及SEArch+公司联手，与美国国家航空航天局(NASA)共同启动了对太空建筑系统的研究与开发，以支持未来对月球的探索。

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group teams up with ICON , developer of advanced construction technologies including robotics, software and building materials, and with SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture), to work with NASA on beginning research and development of a space-based construction system that could support future exploration ofthe Moon.

NASA已经预示，通过Artemis载人探月战略计划，月球将成为首个地球以外的可持续地表勘探站点。BIG与ICON合作的Olympus项目是一个可持续的月球栖息地，它将是人类对地外建筑的首次尝试，其坚固的结构将提供比金属或充气式构造更好的热能、辐射和微陨石防护。从着陆点到栖息地，这些与NASA和SEArch+的协同努力背后有一个共同目标：为人类打造为太空文明。

NASA has signaled that, through the Artemis program, the Moon will be the first off-Earth site for sustainable surface exploration. BIG has partnered with ICON to begin designing Project Olympus, a sustainable lunar habitat that will bethe first human foray into extra-terrestrial construction with robust structures that provide better thermal, radiation, and micrometeorite protection than metal or inflatable habitats can offer. From landing pads to habitats, these collective efforts together with NASA and SEArch+ are driven bythe need to make humanity a spacefaring civilization.

“丹麦语中的‘设计’一词对应‘formgiving’，字面意思是给尚未被赋予形态的实体赋予形态。当我们在地球之外探险并开始设想我们如何在另一个星球居住时，建筑的力量显得愈加清晰”，BIG创始人兼创意总监Bjarke Ingels说道，“与ICON一起，我们将在材料、技术和环境方面开拓新的前沿领域。我们在地球上面临的挑战，很可能会在月球上找到答案”。

"To explain the power of architecture, "formgiving" is the Danish word for design, which literally means to give form to that which has not yet been given form. This becomes fundamentally clear when we venture beyond Earth and begin to imagine how we are going to build and live on entirely new worlds. With ICON we are pioneering new frontiers – both materially, technologically and environmentally. The answers to our challenges on Earth very well might be found on the Moon,” said Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Creative Director, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.

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ICON与NASA位于阿拉巴马州汉茨维尔的马歇尔太空飞行中心合作，将使用各种加工和打印技术测试月球土壤模拟物。这些测试能帮助设计、开发和演示未来全尺寸增材制造系统的雏形，从而在月球上打印基础设施。这一新的合作关系，是建立在ICON在2018年NASA3D打印栖息地挑战赛中展示的技术的基础上。

In partnership with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, ICON will test lunar soil simulant with various processing and printing technologies. The tests will help design, develop, and demonstrate prototype elements for a possible future full-scale additive construction system that could print infrastructure on the Moon. The new partnership builds upon technology ICON demonstrated during NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge in 2018.

ICON联合创始人兼首席执行官Jason Ballard表示：“在另一个星球建立人类的第一个家园将是人类历史上最雄心勃勃的建筑项目，它将把科学、工程、技术和建筑推向全新的高度。NASA对太空技术的投资不仅可以帮助推进人类在太空中的未来，而且可以解决我们在地球上面临的令人困扰的现实问题。我们很荣幸启动对Olympus项目和Olympus建筑系统的研发。”

“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,” saidJason 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.’”

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SEArch+因其创新的“以人为本”太空探索设计理念而享誉全球，与NASA的约翰逊太空中心人类可居住性部门、兰利研究中心、艾姆斯研究中心以及顶尖的航空航天公司建立了超过十年的合作关系。

Recognized on a global scale for innovative ‘human-centered’ designs for space exploration, SEArch+ has over a decade-long association with NASA’s Johnson Space Center Human Habitability Division, Langley Research Center, Ames Research Center and leading aerospace corporations.

“确保宇航员的安全是SEArch+的首要任务。创造丰富人类生活的理想空间，以及打造人类在遥远星球上繁衍生息的居住地，是我们建筑师和设计师的重要职责。SEArch+相信，使用在地材料进行3D打印不仅是一种创新的实用解决方案，而且对我们人类在地球和外太空的生存至关重要。”SEArch +联合创始人说。

“Ensuring the safety of astronauts is primary to our work at SEArch+. The creation of aspirational spaces that enrichand celebrate human life is central to our role as architects and designers asis making places that will allow people to thrive on distant planets. AtSEArch+, we believe that 3D printing with indigenous materials is not only a fantastic practical solution but will prove to be critically vital to our species’ survival both here on Earth and in Outer Space,” said SEArch+ Co-founders.

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“基于我们在火星科学城（MarsScience City）项目中的经验，我们正致力于开发首个能适应月球恶劣环境的永久性建筑。在月球上，装载运输的高成本对效率要求极高。我们探索了各种各样能完美容纳大气压的建筑形态，并对其优化以抵御宇宙和太阳辐射。该栖息地的设计将具备外太空建筑所需的冗余备份，同时采用尖端机器人建造，只使用现场资源，实现零浪费。借助为建造外太空建筑而开发的技术及效率参数，Olympus项目还将在我们努力减少建筑环境的碳足迹的同时，帮助我们在地球上可持续发展。”BIG合伙人Martin Voelkle说道。

“Building on our experience with Mars Science City, we are working to develop the first permanent structureon the Moon resilient to the hostile lunar environment where the cost of payload transportation requires rigorous efficiency. We have explored various building forms ideal for containing atmospheric pressure and optimized forprotection from cosmic and solar radiation. The habitat will be designed with the inherent redundancy required for extraterrestrial buildings, while alsousing groundbreaking robotic construction that uses only in-situ resources with zero waste left behind. With the technologies and efficiency parameters developed for the construction of extraterrestrial buildings, Project Olympus will also help us to build sustainably on planet Earth as we strive to reducet he carbon footprint of the built environment.” MartinVoelkle, Partner, BIG.

Olympus是BIG在“火星科学城”后的第二个太空项目。火星科学城目前正在迪拜建设，将为探索人类在这颗红色星球居住和繁衍所需的建造技术提供一个模型。与火星科学城一样，Olympus项目将响应17项联合国可持续发展目标的其中8项，这些目标与我们蓝色星球的建成环境息息相关。

Project Olympus is BIG’s second projectin outer space following Mars Science City, currently being developed in Dubai as a prototype for exploring the building technologies that humanity would need to reside and thrive on the Red Planet. Like Mars Science City, Project Olympuswill address 8 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, related to the built environment of our Blue Planet.