Good luck with your hand-in! Remember to prepare your oral presentations well! I hope to see you Monday afternoon when I will come by the studio with representatives from NCC including one of the architects who designed the dome that will host your future pavillions.

Sending you this article , as an inspiration!

New York Times: The members of NASA's Hi-Seas team are staying in a dome on the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii for the next eight months. 

On the way to Mars, Neil Scheibelhut stopped by Walmart for mouthwash and dental floss. “We’re picking up some last-minute things,” he said via cellphone last Wednesday afternoon from the store.

Mr. Scheibelhut is not actually an astronaut leaving the earth. But three hours later, he and five other people stepped into a dome-shaped building on a Hawaiian volcano where they will live for the next eight months, mimicking a stay on the surface of Mars.

This is part of a NASA-financed study, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, or Hi-Seas for short. The goal is to examine how well a small group of people, isolated from civilization, can get along and work together.

When astronauts finally head toward Mars years from now — NASA has penciled the 2030s — it will be a long and lonely journey: about six months to Mars, 500 days on the planet, and then another six months home.