Danish design agency SAGA, which makes a speciality of house structure, has labored in partnership with the European House Company (ESA) to design a habitat match to be used in Artemis missions. On the LUNA facility in Cologne, Germany, a recreation of the Moon’s floor is ready to open in 2026, the place coaching astronauts will reside inside SAGA’s FLEXHab. Whereas providing a useful house for trainees to do their work, the SAGA’s Scandinavian sensibilities give the inside a heat environment, combining earthen supplies and sci-fi futurism.
Supporting medium to long-duration analog missions for as much as 4 astronauts, SAGA consciously crafted the design to help human well-being. With circadian lighting, soft-handed materials, and pure supplies, the house feels heat with hygge, a Danish time period that describes a sensation of coziness. Nevertheless, the extra technical sensibilities, such because the all-chrome toilet and the modern sleeping pods, evoke traditional sci-fi cinema and House Age design.
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The galley gives the crew a devoted leisure space full with a well-equipped kitchen, a dinette, and geometric home windows simulating Lunar landscapes. Kitchen cabinetry and Alcantara Vegan Suede benches are solid in a deep blue paying homage to the ocean and sky on Earth. All through, SAGA grounds the house in pure touches like 3D-printed upcycled wooden, cork panels, and acoustic wall coverings, including acquainted parts to the spaceship-like inside structure.
See the detailed pictures within the gallery and watch SAGA’s official video within the window above.
