Spacial Communal Habitat

22 student engineers from Centrale Méditerranée worked in three groups to design a habitat for the moon, Mars or a celestial body in general. Each group was able to think about typical tests and habitat architecture that would be suitable for their respective celestial bodies. This project is the culmination of a year's work, supervised by architect Julie Shurtz Muyldermans, Dr Carter from the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory (LAM) and built by Thomas Herzig, an Austrian architect specialising in inflatable structures.
 
The aim of the project was to design a self-sufficient space habitat capable of adapting to the surfaces of any celestial body. The students were inspired by nature to design their habitat, giving it the shape of an inflatable octopus. 
The idea was to use existing craters and lava tubes as structures to be exploited, with the aim of avoiding the need to transport a costly payload from Earth to another celestial body. The habitat has a spherical body 5m in diameter with a 3m inner shell, and four 7m long suspended arms to house the first landers.

The model will then be used to carry out tests such as measuring CO2 levels, temperature, humidity and the interaction between UV light and dust. In addition, to ensure that the habitat's lighting is self-sufficient, a transparent photovoltaic panel has been installed to power LEDs placed around the model.
 
This experiment provides an opportunity to advance ideas about a probable future, with the long-term aim of developing a collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) to create human habitats on the Moon, Mars and architectures for other celestial bodies.
 
The title of the model comes from a synthesis of the initial name that the students came up with: Spatial Communal Habitat, later transformed into the acronym SCH. The word luck was added. The contraction of the two 'Chluck' (pronounced chlouk), refers to a word from Alsace Lorraine that describes a small sip.