Orbital Design
Architecture and engineering for spacecraft and space habitats.
From Earth to Orbit
Trained as an architect, I use the design, storytelling, programming, iterative, and technical skills gained in the course of my profession to synthesize new concepts for space architecture. These concepts often take the form of speculative designs and/or academic papers, but can also be simple sketches or illustrations.
-Elliott Orion Ruzicka
Latest Blog
Garnet - Submission to the Aurelia Institute Prize in Design for Space Urbanism
The Aurelia Institute has announced a new competition for space urbanism. This competition is inspired by the 1975 NASA Summer Study, which has produced some of the greatest and most impactful conceptual artwork of its kind. I have partnered up with my colleague James Boullion to create a prospective space station concept using Project F12 as a fundamental building block. We use the crystal as a metaphor for how the station grows over time, and as such, we have titled our submission “Garnet”.