Space Tourism
Architectural and design concepts for human travel, habitation, and infrastructure in space environments.
Space tourism represents an emerging frontier for architects and designers, requiring innovative approaches to habitation, transportation, and infrastructure beyond Earth. This topic explores how design can enable human presence in orbital, lunar, and planetary environments.
The community develops concepts ranging from spaceports and launch facilities to orbital stations, Mars habitats, and lunar destinations. Projects examine deployable structures, self-expanding systems, and the architectural requirements for sustained human activity in space.
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View all 45 journalsSTELLAR-1: A Dandelion-Inspired Orbital Refuge Built for Humanity's Eventual Return to Earth
A space elevator and porous lattice shells turn an orbital colony into infrastructure that safeguards people, seeds and knowledge until Earth heals.
Deployable Inflatable Mars Habitat: Packing a Free-Plan Home into a Launch-Ready Cylinder
A shortlisted Habitats '20 entry that swaps rigid construction for inflation, unfolding a compact cylinder into flexible rooms on Mars plains and caves.
SPACEPORT: A Bird's Nest Terminal for India's Commercial Launch Coast at Kulasekharapatnam
A thesis spaceport at Kulasekharapatnam layers launch pads, runway and public terminal into a woven, nest-like gateway between civilians and orbit.
ORIGYN GAIA: A Self-Expanding Orbital Station Built from Asteroid Material
Adam Hoehne, Jack Hooper, and Ricardo Miguel propose a modular space habitat that grows itself using in-situ resource utilization.