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Hope Village Community Building, One Heart Tanzania

A place for learning and belonging, the Community Building for Hope Village, One Heart Tanzania, will inspire and empower vulnerable young people.

Media April 24, 2024

Fortnite launches to the moon in new ‘Lunar Horizons’ simulation game

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hassell-designed Lunar Horizons space habitat is the ‘insanely popular’ video game franchise Fortnite’s latest offering, where players can ‘actively gather water and Helium-3 to finish the construction of the permanent ESA Lunar Habitat’.

Media April 22, 2024

AI case study: Speculating on urban futures through Midjourney

In a recent interview with ArchitectureAU, Jon Hazelwood, Hassell Principal and Sector Lead for the Public Realm, discussed creating ‘fantastical’ architectural images using Midjourney ‘to spark conversations’.‘Just like these fantastical assemblages of plants that appear in the images, a Midjourney image is an ephemeral thing.’

News April 12, 2024

Lunar Horizons in Fortnite: An immersive reimagination of Hassell’s Lunar Habitat Master Plan

Launching today, Lunar Horizons is a new immersive, 3D reimagination in online video game Fortnite of a future European Space Agency (ESA) mission featuring Hassell’s Lunar Habitat design.

Media March 04, 2024

Hassell’s modular lunar habitat for future space settlers builds on a scalable system

Conceived as part of the European Space Agency’s Discovery Programme, the conceptual design for the Lunar Habitat Master Plan will accommodate 144 settlers, reports STIRworld.

Media March 27, 2024

AI round-up: who is using AI and how?

Architects Journal asked various built environment practitioners, including Hassell, to provide examples of their use of AI in practice. The recent Hassell internal Kew Gardens AI Competition and our use of AI image generation for the concept design of the Sultan Haitham Cultural Centre in Oman were among those highlighted.

News March 26, 2024

Unlocking creativity: Hassell’s Kew Gardens AI Competition

How would you design a treehouse for an iconic location using AI? This was the question we asked the Hassell team to consider for our recent Kew Gardens AI Competition. Almost 60 entries were received from across the practice globally, highlighting the creativity and innovation that can be unlocked using AI in design.

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Lunar Master Plan: Moon base for the European Space Agency

Our Lunar Habitat Master Plan is a ground-breaking modular concept that is the next step in creating the first permanent human settlement on the moon.

Media February 14, 2024

Seeds of change

Michael G White, Associate and Landscape Architect at our Sydney studio, explores the digital frontier of planting design in this story for Landscape Australia.

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Seeds of change: exploring the digital frontier of planting design

New tools are popping up that explore the potential of planting design in the digital space. What does this mean for practice, and how do we stay grounded?

Media February 05, 2024

Lunar Habitat Masterplan ‘aiming to revolutionise interstellar living’

Developed for the European Space Agency (ESA)‘s Discovery program, ArchDaily reports on our pioneering modular concept for a moon base, which “involved anthropologists, psychologists, roboticists, and astronauts, emphasising the significance of a comprehensive approach to make this plan possible”.

Media January 26, 2024

Hassell/European Space Agency (ESA) Lunar Habitat Master Plan on New Scientist

New Scientist takes a closer look at our conceptual design for a scalable moon base for the ESA, speaking with Xavier De Kestelier, Principal and Head of Design at our London studio, about what he describes as “a masterplan for a lunar base in the future”. Watch the video and read the story here.

Media January 19, 2024

Hassell designs inflatable moon base for the European Space Agency

Made from a scalable system of inflatable pods that could be partly constructed from moon materials and 3D-printed on-site, read Dezeen’s write-up on our conceptual Lunar Habitat Master Plan for the European Space Agency.

News January 19, 2024

Lunar Master Plan: Hassell and European Space Agency launch pioneering habitat concept

Today marks the launch of our Lunar Habitat Master Plan – a revolutionary new concept designed in collaboration with the European Space Agency to support the development of the world’s first lunar habitat.

Media December 22, 2023

‘Architecture for the Anthropocene’: Design Milk’s 2023 most surprising modern design stories

Hassell’s 3D-printed prototype pavilions, designed in partnership with Nagami and to.org, were among Design Milk’s top 10 surprising stories on modern design in 2023. Read the full round-up here.