为何我钟爱《马拉松》中的建筑细节

Architectural delights James Nouch loves the doors in Marathon. It started, as stirrings of love so often do, with a set of PVC strip curtains. You know the kind – those hanging flaps of chunky-but-flexible plastic that you’ll see in forklift-filled warehouses? They’re a handy, no-frills way of keeping pests out of storage areas or cool air around milk cartons. And, if Tau Ceti IV is anything to go by, it turns out they remain pretty useful in the year 2893. I could point to a variety of sensible-sounding design reasons why I love these PVC entryways. They serve a narrative purpose, suggesting that the colonists who set down here were practical, grounded types rather than shiny, far-future spacefarers. …