The research of architect and educator Ondřej Doule focuses on human‐system integration in spaceship cockpits and space station interiors. Here he describes how his interest in Space Architecture has ...been fuelled and defined by gravity or the lack of it: gravity being a constant on Earth, but a constant variable in Space.
Space Architecture is not just confined to the extraterrestrial. Guest‐Editor Neil Leach describes how the burgeoning space tourism industry and cultural buildings dedicated to the legacy of space ...exploration are potentially leading to more earthbound space structures. Here, Leach profiles Foster + Partners' Spaceport America in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico, and Bevk‐Perovi, Dekleva‐Gregori, OFIS arhitekti and SADAR+VUGA's Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) in Vitanje, Slovenia.
Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies (KSEVT), a space for the synthesis of art and science focused on the post-gravity art, Vitanje, 2012. Since the programme is run by Herman Potočnik ...Noordung Space Center.
Hermann Noordung depiction of a space station habitat wheel. Hermann Potocnik (1892-1929), also known as Herman Noordung, created the first detailed technical drawings of a space station, 1929
Hermann Noordung image depicts a three-unit space station as seen from a space ship. The three units were the habitat, the machine room, and the observatory, each connected by an umbilical, 1929
The building designed by four architectural bureaus which established the Architectural Union for Vitanje (AZZV): Bevk Perović Arhitekti, Dekleva Gregorič Arhitekti, Ofis Arhitekti and SADAR + VUGA ...Architects, 2012