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Students design a hotel suitable for outer space
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Plans for a hypothetical hotel-in-space were recently unveiled by students pursuing their master's degree in Innovation Design Engineering (IDE), a program run jointly by Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art in England. The students developed plans for a hotel that could be built in space and attached to the International Space Station, which is currently orbiting the Earth.
Among the design and engineering challenges the students grappled with was coming up with ways for guests to eat, sleep, bathe and relax in a zero-gravity environment. To demonstrate their solutions to those problems, the students created a 43-foot-long replica of the hotel's interior, along with animated computer designs that show what the inside of the space hotel would look and feel like for tourists. (Click here to take that visual tour.)
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