Insight · May 11, 2020

Small-Space Design on Earth, Informed by Space

The methods that keep a crew sane in a capsule apply directly to small apartments, capsule hotels, and tiny houses on Earth.

Image: NASA

Constraints transfer

Space forces honesty about what a body needs in a small volume. Those lessons are directly useful in dense terrestrial living.

Two directions

The transfer runs both ways: terrestrial small-space design informs space, and space discipline sharpens design on Earth.

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