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Generation Ship Interior

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In 1975 a NASA Ames summer study asked what it would take to live permanently off Earth, and answered with a spinning ring. Don Davis and Rick Guidice painted the inside of it in oil: hardwood decking, farm terraces climbing a curved floor, and light fed down through louvred mirrors.

This system takes that record literally. The ground is dusk-phase timber, the light is lamp-warm and directional, and every surface has been walked on by people who were born aboard. Nothing here is chrome, and nothing glows blue.

Learn more about the Generation Ship Interior style

  • OriginUnited States aerospace design culture
  • Period1975 onward (NASA Ames/Stanford summer study; NASA SP-413 published 1977)
  • DesignerGerard K. O'Neill · Don Davis · Rick Guidice · Richard D. Johnson
  • MovementsSpace settlement design · 1970s NASA technical illustration · High-modernist infrastructure graphics

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