What would the first house on the moon look like?
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In a project 15 years in the making, Swedish artist and entrepreneur Mikael Genberg has designed an answer, which he hopes to launch in October 2015—that is, if he can crowd-fund-raise the $15 million to build the structure and send it into space. The strange twist is that the house looks just like a house—painted falu red, the color of traditional Swedish country houses, and intended to cut a fancifully quaint contrast with its otherworldly location. There the resemblance to a house ends: It weighs only 22 pounds, is made from a special “space-cloth” stretched over a carbon frame, and will self-construct by inflating in under 15 minutes. (It’s also a bit cozy: 10 feet wide and 8 feet tall.) Even if The Moonhouse never comes to pass, it does kindle a sense of yearning: In a day and age where seemingly every square inch of land here is spoken for, it’s intoxicating to think there are still places in the universe where you can build freely, if you can get to them.