Space

Voyager Station space hotel will spin “slightly faster than the second hand of a clock” says its architect

March 29, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Following last week’s news that the first space hotel could be ready for guests in 2027, chief architect Tim Alatorre answers questions posed by sceptical Dezeen readers about the project. The claim that the wheel-shaped space hotel would be constructed in just one year was questioned by several Dezeen commenters. Others expressed doubts about the

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First space hotel set to open in 2027

March 9, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The Gateway Foundation has announced that it intends to open the world’s first hotel in space, named Voyager Station, in 2027. Voyager Station will be built by construction company Orbital Assembly Corporation, which describes itself as “the world’s first large scale space construction company”. According to the organisation, construction of the 50,000-square-metre facility will start in 2026 with the first

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Jupe travel pods are space-themed shelters for off-grid living

December 26, 2020 India Block 0

American prefabricated shelter company Jupe has launched its travel pod, a flat-pack temporary cabin with birch wood floors and a metal frame that lights up at night. The geometric Jupe pods, named after the planet Jupiter, are intended as a futuristic alternative to traditional glamping tents and yurts. Jupe’s design team, whose credentials include working

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Gold inflatable house for Mars designed by Hugh Broughton Architects and Pearce+

November 2, 2020 Cajsa Carlson 0

Exterior view of Martian House in Bristol by Hugh Broughton Architects and Pearce+

Hugh Broughton Architects and Pearce+ are creating Martian House, an inflatable building in Bristol, England, that will explore what an extraterrestrial house for life on Mars could look like. The house, a collaboration with local artists as part of the ongoing art project Building a Martian House, is set over two levels, with the lower

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BIG and NASA collaborate to design 3D-printed buildings for the moon

October 1, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

BIG and 3D-printed building company ICON have revealed they are working on Project Olympus, which aims to develop robotic construction for the moon. The architecture firm and SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture) were enlisted for the project by ICON after it received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) government contract boosted with funding from NASA. Called

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Competition: win tickets to the Turncoats’ Lost in Space debate

February 6, 2020 India Block 0

Competition: alternative architecture event Turncoats has returned for a final season, and Dezeen is giving away five pairs of tickets for its debate on space in the next 24 hours. Following a sold-out first debate last month on nuclear housing, Lost in Space will be held at St John’s Hoxton on 7 February. Enter below

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IKEA prioritises space for overhaul of living pod in Mars Desert Research Station

November 26, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

IKEA has redesigned the tiny living pod on the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, filling its interior with space-saving furnishings. The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is a simulation site that’s designed to emulate the physical and psychological conditions of Mars, where groups of up to six scientists can visit to carry out investigations

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“Surviving on Mars could teach us how to live more sustainably on earth”, says Design Museum’s Moving to Mars curator

October 17, 2019 Jennifer Hahn 0

Moving to Mars exhibition opens at Design Museum in London

The Moving to Mars exhibition, which opens tomorrow at London’s Design Museum, explores putting humans on the red planet as the final frontier for design. The show is structured into five parts: Imagining Mars, The Voyage, Survival, Mars Futures and Down to Earth. It explores themes including the role that design plays in keeping astronauts

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Viewport Studio completes desert-inspired interiors of Virgin Galactic’s Gateway to Space

September 17, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Gateway to Space interiors by Viewport Studio

Viewport Studio has completed the interior fit-out of the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space building in New Mexico, USA, which has been designed with natural-tone spaces that “deliberately avoid the clichés of the space age”. Gateway to Space’s two floors now play host to a series of work and communal spaces, which can be used

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Malaysian designers propose building colony on Mars from locally grown bamboo

September 3, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Seed of Life bamboo colony on Mars by Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar

Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet. Named Seed of Life, the conceptual colony design comprises a series of structures woven from bamboo by autonomous robots. Malaysian designers Zaki and Amzar designed the proposal to demonstrate that there may

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