In partnership with British firm Hugh Broughton Architects and design studio Pearce+, artists Ella Good and Nicki Kent created an inflatable house, made entirely of recycled materials. This work was designed as part of the public art project "Building a Martian House," which explores how people would live on
Mars
Two English artists from Bristol recently unveiled a peculiar house that could be ours if we lived on the planet Mars. The hidden message behind this work? To build awareness among the general public by inviting them to think about the limited resources we have on Earth.
The idea of exploring the planet Mars and making it habitable as a kind of escape plan from Earth in order to preserve the human species has long been the subject of science fiction scenarios but also more serious endeavors. In fact, millions of dollars have been invested in the exploration of the red planet, with a view to developing space tourism, or even some day settling there in the eventuality that the Earth becomes uninhabitable. It's a hypothesis that has earned Mars the nickname of "Planet B"... and that has inspired a work by two English artists Ella Good and Nicki Kent, from Bristol.