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>>11877117
they should make the rooms like this

>>11728612
A geology professor I occasionally work with specializes in lava tubes. He laughs at the prospect of living in them due to the collapse hazards and texture. His answer was that if you could find one hundreds of meters down, smooth tunneled, and build an elevator down to it, it might be safe.
Planetary base architecture that is built in-situ is likely to look like classical buildings. Barrel vaults, corbel arches and aqueduct malls buried in trenches with something like superadobe domes for large pressurized volumes.