Project · Aerospace · Imaginactive

Alumaïd.

An orbital vehicle for Imaginactive, from an idea by Charles Bombardier — a propulsion truss, a docking node, two inflatable habitat modules and a crew capsule, assembled into one stack in low Earth orbit.

Programme
Imaginactive
Charles Bombardier
Sector
Aerospace
Orbital · crewed
Role
Design & CGI
Concept modelling · visualisation
Type
Orbital vehicle
Modular stack
About the project

Assembled from what exists.

The persuasive move in this concept is restraint. Rather than inventing a spacecraft whole, the vehicle is assembled from hardware that already flies or has already been announced — a crew capsule, a commercial docking node, inflatable habitat modules of the kind that have been tested on orbit — and adds only the piece that does not exist yet.

That piece is the propulsion truss: an open lattice at one end of the stack carrying spherical tanks and a nozzle, deliberately left unskinned. Nothing is gained by wrapping a structure that never enters an atmosphere, and leaving it open makes the vehicle legible — you can see what is tank, what is structure and what is engine.

The visualisation work runs in two registers, the same split that serves any hardware concept: clean white plates that read as a technical elevation, and orbital frames over a night-side Earth that put the thing somewhere real.

Renders

Stack and orbit.

Five studio plates and three frames on orbit.

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