Viewport Studio completes desert-inspired interiors of Virgin Galactic's Gateway to Space
Viewport Studio has completed the interior fit-out of the Virgin Galactic Gateway to Space building in New Mexico, USA, which has been designed with natural-tone spaces that "deliberately avoid the clichés of the space age".
Gateway to Space's two floors now play host to a series of work and communal spaces, which can be used by Virgin Galactic staff and tourists travelling beyond the earth's atmosphere.
The Gateway to Space building was erected by architecture firm Foster + Partners back in 2011 and forms part of Spaceport America ? the "world's first" commercial spaceport.
The spaceport occupies an 18,000-acre plot of land at the basin of New Mexico's Jorndada del Meurto desert.
This landscape came to inform the building's interior scheme, developed by London-based Viewport Studio, which has previously collaborated with Virgin on the design of its Airbus A330 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircrafts. "Our team stood on the runway at Spaceport America and stared out to the New Mexico desert which is a stark and beautiful place, rich in colour and texture," said the studio, who worked alongside Virgin Galactic's in-house design team.
"The brief from Virgin Galactic was very open, they just had the very particular requirement that the space should also reflect a strong sense of togetherness and allow for chance encounters," the studio told Dezeen.
On the ground floor ? which has been named Gaia, after the Greek goddess that represents Ea...
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