Shelter
Documenting a personal quest for non-toxic housing.
Wednesday, December 8, 2004
Update
Still no progress, though I have made some promising contacts in the past couple of weeks. Hopefully there may be something significant to report soon. In the mean time, I thought readers might be interested in an article I completed recently on space settlement design and posted to a space architecture forum. Have long been interested in space advocacy, I've been puzzled by the obvious scarcity of any realistic portrayals of practical space settlements in any media. There are, of course, plenty of proposals and images for space outposts but these are not places where people would go to live in space permanently. They are temporary elements of exploration programs. A true permanently inhabitable space settlement has very different requirements and purpose. So I have, for a time, been pondering exactly what a realistic space settlement would be like given existing technology. You may find my conclusions, and my proposed design strategy, interesting.
Documenting a personal quest for non-toxic housing.
Wednesday, December 8, 2004Update
Still no progress, though I have made some promising contacts in the past couple of weeks. Hopefully there may be something significant to report soon. In the mean time, I thought readers might be interested in an article I completed recently on space settlement design and posted to a space architecture forum. Have long been interested in space advocacy, I've been puzzled by the obvious scarcity of any realistic portrayals of practical space settlements in any media. There are, of course, plenty of proposals and images for space outposts but these are not places where people would go to live in space permanently. They are temporary elements of exploration programs. A true permanently inhabitable space settlement has very different requirements and purpose. So I have, for a time, been pondering exactly what a realistic space settlement would be like given existing technology. You may find my conclusions, and my proposed design strategy, interesting.
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