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Space Mess

Interior Design in Space Stations
Zygmunt Borawski
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Zygmunt Borawski:
used to be an editor of the Architecture & Design section. A blueprint poet.

Every internet user probably knows the videos shot at the International Space Station (ISS) by Chris Hadfield. Thanks to them, we have seen everyday life in space – what the inhabitants of the station eat, what they do in their spare time, how they take baths, and even how they brush their teeth. Meanwhile, an interior designer watches it and cries…

How a director sees it…

It’s hard not to notice the dissonance between real space images and our notions of living up there. Ever since the first films about conquering the universe, directors have presented us more and more daring visions of space stations and interplanetary spaceships. The most emblematic examples are in the Star Wars saga and Stanley Kubri

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Zygmunt Borawski:
used to be an editor of the Architecture & Design section. A blueprint poet.
Publish date: 15.09.2018

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