Vera Mulyani didn’t want to be just an architect when she grew up. She aspired to be a “Marschitect.” So she founded the think tank Mars City Design to explore the architectural future of our neighboring planet. And apparently, Mulyani is not alone in her dreams. Mars City Design just crowdsourced more than $30,000 through a successful Kickstarter campaign that will fund a workshop for Mars-minded architects, designers, and engineers from around the world, the product of which will be the construction of habitat prototypes in the Mojave Desert through 3-D printing . Three designs (all of which will use regolith—a layer of rock and dust covering the surface of Mars—as a building material) have been selected as potential construction projects. “It is not enough to just travel to Mars and survive,” Mulyani writes on Kickstarter. “Now we must develop a way in which we can sustainably live and love on Mars.” See the three dwellings that might soon be built here on Earth below.

Neurosynthesis by Karan Gandhi, Manchester, U.K.

Green Cloud City by Alain Robert, United Atelier, Shanghai.

Regolith by Eugene Jahng, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.