
Lunar Colony ORION: Biological Research Division
ABOUT
A research lab dedicated to the study of biology on the moon, the colony has many plants surrounding the many areas of the space station. The Station is split into six areas: the reception, The Common Area, The GreenHouse, The Cafeteria, The Research Lab, and the Cargo Bay. Each area has its own color, separating it and making it easier for the player to remember which is which. When creating the space station, I wanted to land on using Solarpunk Aesthetics with lots of natural light, so there are a lot of windows and skylights throughout the facility. I really wanted to have a real big setpiece for each room, differentiating all 6 rooms while tying them back to the core theme of plants. This project was an exercise in layout design and player navigation, although I could tone back the amount of dark and light in certain parts.
Originally, the station was going to have a lot more verticality with 2 floors and a lot more rooms, but I stuck around to using 1 floor while trying to make it interconnected as well as more dense and core rooms rather than having smaller one-off rooms like the original plan had.