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Where on my spaceship can I justify more space for my humans?

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Spaceships are a peculiar thing; as are the Humies - the hardy folks working and living inside these hunks of metal for weeks or months at a time. Ironically in space living-space is at a premium. Any places inhabited for amounts of time need to be oxygenated, ventilated and shielded from radiation - even the hardiest meatbags are pushovers when it comes to environmental conditions.

Thus spaceships were forced to become the marvels of spatial use that they are today, reducing down-times wherever possible:

  • Sharing bunks between shifts, or using them for storage
  • Having the mess serve double duty as meeting-/working-space
  • Using the 3-dimensional geometry by moving appliances to ceilings and walls (e.g. have the cooking area of the mess opposite of the seating area)
  • Combining an observation room/cupola with hydroponics

While these conditions mean near-optimal space-usage, they also mean less privacy and ways to escape each other during the weeks or months spent aboard ships.

Q: Where on my spaceship can I justify creating & maintaining these expensive living conditions, allowing me to expand available crew-space as a by-product?


Addendum: Trying to address all points raised in the comments.

Data on ships:

  • Travelling between astronomical- as well as man-made-objects in the solar system
  • Trips taking anything from a few days, to weeks, to months at a time
  • Transporting anything that could possibly be needed to be transported between two, or more, points in space
  • Crewed by usually 2 to 6 people, but sometimes more, sometimes less
  • Crews rosters are, as with current-day spacecraft, intended to provide a varied set of skills necessary to facilitate spaceflight, as well as facilitate a redundancy of the availability of such skills among the crew

If the given data does not seem sufficient for any part of your answer, please assume a near-future society and extrapolate sensibly. Also consider looking at the linked questions & articles, they're not just there because I like coloured text.

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