Virtual recreation of the “Crater House” designed by Amey Kandalgaonkar with Elon Musk in mind as a hypothetical client…

Known for his impressive utopian projects, the Indian architect and photographer took literally the statements made by the South African billionaire last May, in which he stated that there was no point in having possessions on Earth and that his next goal would be living on the red planet, and has already presented the design of a house in the form of a UFO located in a Martian crater…

For the Indian architect and photographer (Bombay, 1986, although working in Shanghai and Vancouver) Amey Kandalgaonkar, even the most inconceivable structures are possible with a little imagination. Through his Instagram account, he shows how he imagines what a whole series of buildings located in the most unexpected and impressive natural formations (fictional, obviously) could be like. The last of his projects is a house designed for Elon Musk, the South African billionaire businessman, located on… Mars!

«I enjoy creating architectural proposals on interesting geological elements –explains Kandalgaonkar in conversation through whatsapp–. It allows me to put together two random objects and explore the relationships between them. In this particular project, I was able to establish a relationship between a meteor crater and a UFO-like object, apparently unrelated objects, although both find their origin in space. That made me ask myself who would be an ideal client for a space-themed project… And the answer was simple: Elon Musk. He had read that he was selling all his houses and that he jokingly claimed that his next destination would be Mars. So I dared to go further and create a landscape that gave the feeling that the house was in a crater on Mars.

Although Kandalgaonkar is an architect, with a master’s degree in Architectural Design from University College London, his personal website is focused on his photography of buildings. «I am still young and I have not found the opportunity to design and build real architectural projects. Visual architecture projects are an exercise in becoming a better designer and building a catalog of my own ideas for the future. It allows me to be my own client and have all the freedom to enjoy the design process. In real life, I have designed many architectural projects for the companies I have worked for in the past, but for some reason none of those projects came to fruition.