The Ultimate Pod!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM

Ok, so maybe it's a little too much pure geometry... but the inside could be a different shape...

Also, he seems to have a lot of controls and gadgets at his fingertips.

Just what is he observing in there anyway?

Trans-Atlantic Hot Air Balloon

In 1987, Richard Branson (CEO, Virgin) and Per Lindstrand became the first people to cross the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon (seen above). It used the largest envelope flown to that point (65,000m³) and reached speeds in excess of 130 mph. The capsule can now be seen in the AirSpace Hall at the Imperial War Museum's RAF Duxford site in Cambridgeshire.

Archigram Cushicle - 1967

AllesWirdGut - LifeCycle, 2000

The Body and The Environment

Consider the Space Suit: it is a spacecraft formed to the body.  A Space Suit, manufactured by ILC Dover Inc., costs US$2Million and takes 5000 man hours to construct: it is made of 11 different material layers and assembled as interchangeable parts (arm, boot, helmet, etc.) which are joined by airtight seals.  NASA currently has enough space suit component pieces to assemble 51 separate complete space suits.  It is through the combination of these discrete suit pieces that a space suit is tailored to an astronaut's body.

Reyner Banham and Francois Dallegret's Environment Bubble, 1965 - a transparent plastic bulbble dome inflated by air-conditioning output.

"The two ideas behind this are to give everyone a standard of living package containing all the necessities of modern life (shelter, food, energy, television) and to do away with all the permanent structure of building, and men would not be constrained by past settlements"  R.B.

Link:

MoMA: SAFE, 2005

Drawing Architecture 01 / Assembly

Drawings of assembly are composite sections. Notice the composition of the blow-away in relation to order of assembly and functional hierarchy.

Morphology of the Body in Section

Visible Human Project

Particles in the Body

The Architectural Section today is drawn from a 3-dimensional model, that is so say, it is a cut through a 3-dimensional composit formation. The modern section operates more a kin to a CAT Scan than an X-Ray. Read below how Computed Axial Tomography operates and consider it a drawing process.

Link:

How CAT (Computed Axial Tomography) Scans Work