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“While the world he inhabits is, in some respects, counterfeit, there’s nothing fake about Truman himself. No scripts, no cue cards. It isn’t always Shakespeare, but it’s genuine. It’s a life.”
The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir
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What was needed to make sure the cosmonauts felt at home in the small capsules?
Galina Balashova: Cosmonauts feel at home if the design of the small room around them is harmonious. If it is sweet, functional and easy to use. The room needs to be outfitted just as if it were an apartment: With a bed, a table, chairs, a toilet, and a shower. Good architecture always depends on the same rules, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s about a house or a spaceship.
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Galina Balashova: I had good teachers at university: Michail Fyodorovich Olenev and Yuri Nikolayevich Sheverdyayev. In his very first lecture, Sheverdyayev told us that what would be most important for us would be to learn good taste. To find the right proportions in the balance of humans, space and architecture. And that you can always reconcile function and beauty – he’d cribbed the latter from Palladio.
“Galina Balashova. Architect of the Soviet Aerospace Program” at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt/Main
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GALINA BALASHOVA
Space architect extraordinaire
Author: PHILIPP MEUSER
Galina Balashova is the only woman in history to have been the main designer of three generations of spaceships. The 83 year-old’s desk in her apartment in Korolyov north-east of Moscow is littered with construction plans: Soyuz rockets, the space station Mir and the Buran shuttle – all proud testimonials to the technical space race between the USA and the USSR. Balashova’s responsibilities ranged from the ergonomic design of living and sleeping areas via comfortable cosmonaut seating to the design of space-proof toilet facilities. In later years she went on to design various branding elements such as medals and mission insignia.
Because her work as an employee of the space concern Energija was covered by strict secrecy regulations, her sensational designs for the “Soviet heroes” in Space remained anonymous. It was not until the break-up of the Soviet Union that her architect colleagues learned of her role in what must be one of the unusual architectural challenges: Balashova designed dwellings that were beyond the laws of gravity. For this talented artist, the goal that the Russian Constructivists agonised over – an architecture floating free above the ground – was everyday routine.
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What people are going to be doing when they colonize outer space is they're going to be living in little tin cans; they're going to have to get supplies from the outside, and they're going to be living on hydroponic gardens. There aren't going to be Redwood forests in space. There aren't going to be rivers and oceans in space. They'll be orbiting offices, with cubicles and Ficus plants. So there's an inherent ceiling on what they can do now. You can come close to the possible ideal and I suppose to some extent the Biosphere did. I mean you build a sealed greenhouse - that can be done. But, the grand scheme you just can’t do it: you can't build a whole new planet.
Phil Patiris
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