Sky base one has landed in Portugal with a $9.7 million price tag

Lisbon: Portugal may have pulled the plug on the real estate element of their popular Golden Visa program in 2023, but Trekkies and other sci-fi fans who might still like a permanent or part-time home base in the Iberian country’s scenic Algarve region should set their sights on Sky Base One.

Inspired by books and films and completed just last year (2023) in an up-and-coming area near the sea, the futuristic residence was conceived by Spy Manor Productions, a film production and real estate development company. Featured in the TV crime drama Cold Mind, Sky Base One is now available to sci-fi enthusiasts and aficionados of ultra-modern architecture for €9 million ($9.7 million). Carl Gambino of The Gambino Group at Compass is the U.S. marketing rep for the suis generis domicile.

With the 6,700-square-foot home, the architects and developers—ahem—boldly went where few architects and builders have gone before, integrating shapes, angles and elements that both subtly and more explicitly resemble spacecraft such as Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise. The designers also envisioned Sky Base One as a refuge following the COVID-19 pandemic. “Airflow, materials and surfaces [were] planned to facilitate maintaining a spotless environment,” according to marketing material.

Beyond the secured entrance gates, a tall concrete wall forms a serene semicircular courtyard with naturalistic desert landscaping too green to be a moonscape but minimal enough to evoke someplace otherworldly. A gigantic skylight caps the entrance gallery, where smooth concrete steps wrap around a perforated golden cylinder that serves as the home’s “transporter”—it houses an elevator. At the top of the steps lies the great room, a sleek, minimalist space with a fireplace surmounted by a flat-screen TV on one wall and a well-appointed and discreetly all-black kitchen with integrated appliances on the other.