13 octagonal corridors from science fiction that’ll make you go “why do they keep doing that?”
Why has the octagon been the shape of the future for almost 40 years? Our theory is that when dressing a set, filling in the corners of a corridor is the one thing the designer can do to say, “this isn’t just an ordinary corridor in an disused hospital, this is a science fiction hospital”.
But, seriously, they need a new shape:
1. Red Planet (2000, Antony Hoffman)
2. The Black Hole (1979, Gary Nelson)
3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991, Nicholas Meyer)
4. Lifeforce (1985, Tobe Hooper)
5. Battle Beyond the Stars (1980, Jimmy T. Murakami)
6. Outland (1981, Peter Hyams)
Yes, this a hexagon. Trolling you.
7. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989, William Shatner)
8. Prometheus (2012, Ridley Scott)
9 Alien Resurrection (1997, Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
10 Galaxy Quest (1999, Dean Parisot)
11. 2010 (1984, Peter Hyams)
12. Moon (2009, Duncan Jones)
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
Images nabbed from the rather wonderful scificorridorarchive, where we clicked through 77 pages, looking for octagons.
BTW: What has 8 sides and isn’t there? An octagone.
