LEVI -- Lunar Economic Village Initiative is a series of lunar settlement infrastructures aims to enable commercial Lunar mining of Helium-3 and other minerals to benefit industry, economic growth and Climate on Earth through lunar mineral economy

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Consist of a Main Settlement and a Mining Outpost, the two settlements aims to both support livelihood of commercial astronauts, and a semi-autonomous mining operation on the surface of the moon.

 

Through 3D printed habitat that utilize ISRU materials, the 3D printed habitats can be duplicated in exact exterior construction, while having various outfitting to endure operation diversities in the settlement. The inter-connected habitats allow settlement expansion in phases.

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The mining outpost also employs ISRU construction in its mining infrastructures, the mining outpost aims to enable mineral refining operations all the way up to the extraction process, before exporting extracted mineral ores back to Earth for further processing.

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Both the main settlement and mining outpost will be construct in five phases, starting with phase I, each phases will further expand the settlements in size and components to enable further capability to enlarge its operations. With phase V aiming to enable cost effective lunar mineral export back to Earth.

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This design project explores the design, zoning and visualization of the LEVI main settlement and mining outpost. More details are in the paper.​

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Full project paper can be accessed here

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