{"id":707,"date":"2011-11-30T17:23:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T09:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sepiadesign.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:45:49","slug":"plans-for-lunar-habitat-unveiled-at-amcham-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sepiadesign.com\/newsepiasite\/plans-for-lunar-habitat-unveiled-at-amcham-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Architect’s Plans for Lunar Habitat unveiled at AMCHAM Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hong Kong, 30 November 2011<\/strong> ————– Hong Kong-based architectural consultancy firm Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/em><\/a> presented their award-winning architectural concept for a lunar habitat at the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM)<\/strong> in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture entitled, “Building on the Moon:  The Lunar Scenario of our Future in Space”<\/strong> was delivered by Sepia Design Consultants Limited Managing Director, Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP<\/strong>, as a follow-up to his series of lectures in Boston and Los Angeles in September of this year.  Schmidt’s lunar habitat design was co-awarded the Technical Feasibility and Elegance Award<\/em> by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics<\/a> earlier this year. His design of a lunar research habitat and space hotel scooped an award in an international design competition organized by SHIFTBoston that garnered over 100 diverse entries from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schmidt provided an overview of the lunar environment, the rationale behind the design and planning of the 8,000 sq m self-sustaining facility, and the potential for in-situ lunar resource utilization to create construction materials on the lunar surface for such an endeavor.  Schmidt noted, “It’s really an exciting time to be alive — with the continuing commercialization of space travel, burgeoning field of space tourism, and long-term potential for lunar Helium-3 to meet the world’s energy needs, we may be back on the moon before we know it.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Editor’s Note<\/span>:\u00a0 Thomas Schmidt, AIA, LEED AP <\/strong>is the founder of Sepia Design Consultants Limited<\/strong><\/a>, an award-winning design consultancy specializing in creative and sustainable design solutions for the hospitality industry.\u00a0 Schmidt is also author and illustrator of the award-winning Bumbling Traveller Adventure Series<\/em><\/a> which seeks to promote environmental and cultural awareness through entertaining mysteries and adventures, which was recognized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) through a 2010 Chapter Citation.<\/h6>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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