In ground breaking news for the timber industry, the first non earth mass timber building is in it’s planning stages. The design brief is for a semi permanent base to house astronauts living and working on the moon for up to 12 months at a time. The site is a naturally occurring cave which will shield the building’s inhabitants from the sun’s radiation.

As the gravity on the moon is significantly less than on earth, the size of the space craft required to escape the moon’s gravity for the return trip is also smaller. Usually excess space ship is jettisoned in space to be burned up in earth’s atmosphere. Architects are collaborating with space agency engineers to develop a mass timber space craft designed to be partially dismantled leaving its lower stages on the moon to be reconstructed into the lunar habitat.

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