KHONSU COLONY

Forever adapting, forever evolving
This project revolved around theorizing and designing a self sustaining space colony. The colony had to exist in a near-future world using technologies somewhat grounded in the real world. This meant considering how large of a payload could be launched, how oxygen is generated, how food is grown, and more. The end goal of the project was to have a poster that was both informative and visually interesting. This project was a lesson in creative problem solving within strict limitations

Concept
Named after the Egyptian god of journeys, Khonsu is a fully modular space station that harvests space junk (e.g. dead satellites, derelict spacecraft, and abandoned launch vehicle stages) in order to perpetually expand itself. Daily life is spent in zero gravity while sleeping is done in cylinders that spin to create 1.6Gs to recover from muscle and bone deterioration from living in zero gravity. 
Initial Concept Sketches



Layout Concept
First attempt. Model is far too simple to convey realism and size
Original model
Model with randomized surface from blender to communicate scale

Final Poster

Central image was modelled and rendered by hand. Inside view images were AI generated based on simplified 3D models, then brought into photoshop to fix issues and add features. 


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