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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6879414" data-attributes="member: 177">Again - you are thinking like someone who has to use compact architecture for reasons of limitations of real estate area, and the structural strength of materials that have to support their own weight under compression.&nbsp; Neither of these hold for a structure Out There.&nbsp; The stresses on the structure resemble those on a suspension bridge more than those on a skyscraper - specifically, most of a terrestrial building's forces are &quot;compression&quot;, while this spinning sphere or cylinder instead has lots of tension.&nbsp; And you don't have to worry about restricting your building to fit in a small ground footprint.The structures we are considering were intended to maximize &quot;normal&quot; living area and psychological impact.&nbsp; The idea is to have high open spaces, because humans are designed psychologically to walk under the open sky on a regular basis.&nbsp; If you put in a ceiling, you negate that.By the way, DS9 didn't have any major open areas - it was built like a starship that didn't move, and the biggest open areas we saw were large concourse hallways (&quot;The Promenade&quot;), at best a couple stories high.&nbsp; But DS9 assumed artificial gravity generation, not using spin to generate gravity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6879414, member: 177"] Again - you are thinking like someone who has to use compact architecture for reasons of limitations of real estate area, and the structural strength of materials that have to support their own weight under compression. Neither of these hold for a structure Out There. The stresses on the structure resemble those on a suspension bridge more than those on a skyscraper - specifically, most of a terrestrial building's forces are "compression", while this spinning sphere or cylinder instead has lots of tension. And you don't have to worry about restricting your building to fit in a small ground footprint. The structures we are considering were intended to maximize "normal" living area and psychological impact. The idea is to have high open spaces, because humans are designed psychologically to walk under the open sky on a regular basis. If you put in a ceiling, you negate that. By the way, DS9 didn't have any major open areas - it was built like a starship that didn't move, and the biggest open areas we saw were large concourse hallways ("The Promenade"), at best a couple stories high. But DS9 assumed artificial gravity generation, not using spin to generate gravity. [/QUOTE]

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