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Keystone Urbanism by Redesigning Asteroids

Carla Muttoni Founder & Director Space Robotics
Nicolas Acevedo UTSM

Proposal

Our proposal is defined by a pipeline construction and mining system that distributes liquids, minerals and eventually habitat, to the entire outpost in a planetoid located in the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter. This principle is inspired by a biomimetic system regarding a plant’s xylem, feeding the entire city through a root network. This approach ensures a more controlled temperature, reduces exposure to cosmic radiation, helps maintain air pressure, secures transportation and is easier to produce due to the boring and tunnel machinery. This makes rocky asteroids good candidates for Inter-paraterraformation. Because mining at near zero G is easier, we designed a continuous pipeline to shutter material from boring & refinery to cargo. It is then redistributed or exchanged with other outposts.