On Earth, you wake up, sit up, walk to the kitchen, turn on the tap, pour coffee, take a shower, flush the toilet, and maybe water a plant or two. You don’t think about gravity. Or air pressure. Or heat transfer. Or fluid dynamics. They’re
Space tourism was never modest in fiction. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, passengers travel aboard a silent spaceplane to a wheel-shaped orbital station, sipping drinks in artificial gravity. In Total Recall, vacations to Mars are sold as packages. More recently, The Expanse and For All
Space architecture is a strange field. It deals with building environments for places where humans did not evolve and were never meant to live. It borrows from civil engineering, aerospace, psychology, biology, and sometimes speculative design. It’s not about skyscrapers or aesthetics first, but about
