Solar furnace tech to build bricks for Moon village

Engineers at the German space agency, DLR, in Cologne are are working on solar furnace tech to figure out how to construct a Moon village.
Idea is to use the solar furnace to study the properties of Moon dust to see if it can be melted or baked into bricks.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160126-a-village-made-of-moon-dust?ocid=twfut