The problem Colonization of Mars solves

The main application of the colony would be to habituate humans on the Martian surface considering the significant increase in the population level and high population density on the Earth. The colony would be well equipped with all the resources needed for human race to sustain the life. With the growing population, the energy sources on the Earth are also getting exhausted. Colonising other planets in the galaxy would pave a way for humans to carry on future research on other planets as well. The colony would serve humans to explore the Martian surface and carry on the research there so that all the designs and structures made would be based on this research.
Also, this would give more insights to everyone who are undergoing research in this field.

Challenges we ran into

A major challenge that we faced during the project was gathering the huge amount of data related to the Martian environment. We had to go through different sources to collect the data related to various factors that influenced our designs. Some of the other challenges were to decide the materials and technology which would be apt for our designs considering the feasibility in techinical as well as in economical way. It was challenging for us to design the models, decide it's manufacturing process as well as the material that suits the Martian environment. The challenge related to the software was to assemble all the structures in a single file by using only a single option in Fusion i.e. "Align", as we were not able to mate them and could only capture their position and ground them.
Some of the problems while 3D printing the prototype were that the terrain was printed with a red flexible TPU and the other components were printed with black and white PLA. Printing the terrain TPU posed a lot of challenges as TPU always causes excessive stringing and had to be printed at a very slow speed, hence it took nearly 16 hours to print it. And the other components being printed with PLA had to take in the thin features into account. Lot of the thin features were eliminated from complex models and were provided with additional thickness as support to obtain a better finish. Grinding and treatment with cyanoacrylate was also done to further improve the surface finish of the prints
To look on to the challenges before implementing the actual plan in the design we decided to make 4 iterations before we proceed to the final design. Hence while making these iterative designs we have overcome the challenges related to our design procedure. At each stage of our iterative design procedure we tested the feasibility of our designs and finally after the fourth iterative design we were able to implement all the iterations in the final design.