The Continuity GuideMoonbase Guide
Recreation
by Martin Willey
The Continuity Guide
Cut-away views of the Solarium, by Andrew Novinc. See renders below.
Exterior door, labelled "Solarium Area". There is an unusual plant and perspex sculpture in the corridor. This is at the end of a standard corridor (and this is normally the travel tube door). We don't see it open, and when Koenig and the others enter there is a plain wall immediately behind them.
If the overall configuration of the room looks familiar, it is because it is a radical revamp of the Command Office (plan); although most of the side panels are changed, the floor plan is identical. The central pillar looks like a communications post, with a yellow "S" identification sign. The actual communications post, which normally stands on the raised platform, has a purple "S" sign (for security?).
Note the controls on either side of the sunbed. There is a hook with headphones, and two silver canisters, probably with sun lotion. Presumably some of the controls are for music, while others are for the solarium lights.
The Solarium from Force Of Life. On this side wall there are 4 beds.
Steps lead down to a sunken area with four more beds, in a star shape around a central column.
Note the 4 side doors to the changing areas or perhaps saunas. Uniquely for Alpha, they are wood panelled.
This shot shows the double doors of the main entrance- you would expect access to be through the changing rooms. Note on either side of the doors the unusual concave corner units.
In this view up to the doors, a Mezzatessera table can be seen with a Toga chair
View of the "sun lamps". They seem to be conventional decorative lamp covers.
A pile of towels can be seen on a Tondara table. There's another Tondara table in another corner.
The power control for the room. Note the airbrush designs on the lighted wall panels.
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Illustrated in Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual by Chris Thompson (2021); page 73
Below: renders by Andrew Novinc. In the episode, the ceiling lights are not illuminated (because they use off-screen studio lights). Alternate ceiling lights are lit here (like the Command Office set), to give the set enough illumination.
The "Solarium Area" is a revamp of the Year 2 Medical Center. The same set, with the hanging lights and gym equipment, but without the "Solarium Area" sign, is also seen as the location where Taybor auctions his wares.
The solarium in The Exiles and The Taybor. Note the Sorella lamps between the beds. It's the same sunbeds and sun-lamps as the Force Of Life Solarium Area. The beds are quite close together, with a wider gap where Taybor's gift falls. The controls between the beds seem to be the angled corners of the central beds in the Force of Life solarium.
By the door (alongside the vertical press and a dumb-bell rack) is a Melpomene hat stand. Also outside in the corridor is the perspex bubble canopy of a video screen.
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Copyright Martin Willey