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What would the facilities of a Moon colony look like?

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What would a human colony on the moon look like?

I already asked a prelusive question here about the safest place to start a moon colony but I needed further informations. After some answers, I reformatted this question in order to be more specific (to answer @Mikey's request).

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We are slightly in the future (something about 2100 or so). A powerful and rich company emerged. Think of what Google would look like many years in the future without any restrictions whatsoever. This company is determined and wealthy and it improved and democratised space-travel and more specifically moon commuting. They succeeded to install a durable settlement on the moon in order to pursue their scientific research and gather some strategic resources and bring them back to the Earth. Moreover, they proved that humanity was capable of space colonisation.

The plan was to prove the concept with a bunch of voluntary scientists before evolving rapidly to become an almost self sufficient city composed of a network of highly connected facilities able to host safely around five thousands persons for several years without any help so workers and scientists could live up there with their family for several years.

The "almost" is very important and the moon-city still has to be dependent on the earth to survive.

From the answer of my previous question I determined that the the Peary Crater is the best choice to start such a settlement. My question is:

What would those facilities look like?

I imagined several district under some sort of glass domes which would keep a local breathable atmosphere and a fixed and determined 'atmospheric' pressure. The districts would be connected together by glass tubes. And the floor could be made out of material from the moon like moon dust which apparently looks very much like concrete.

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