An Economically Viable Space Stationluis@legildesign.com
And the rendering begins…
A view of the construction process on an expanding circulation core. Inflated habitable spaces are seen behind. More renderings to come…
Midterm Presentation
My PDF presentation for midterm. Check it out. Click Here to View the Midterm PDF
Mining Money
Inspired by the ideas of John S. Lewis, the EVSS will serve as a home base and processing center for a near-Earth asteroid mining program. Instead of the dead vacuum some people might assume outer space to be, our solar system is full of resources readily available for our use, and some of the most [...]
Making Money in Space
Some ideas on how to make the space station profitable, or at least economically viable, by introducing new program elements.
Cool Graphic and Video
I came across this graphic and thought it was pretty cool and also pretty informative for this class. Its done by a firm call 5W Infographics. Also, this video is pretty awesome. Its a sci-fi short involving–wait for it–a space station! What are the odds?! Seriously though, beautiful video, check it out. MODERN TIMES from [...]
Programming and Such
In addition to the given program elements, the Space Station will incorporate need to incorporate other uses as well in order to make the station economically viable. After adding a few elements the program the entire program chunks can be more or less broken down into large volume and small volume spaces. While I’m not [...]