History Main / UnnecessarilyLargeInterior

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* Motorola, in the early 1960s, did a series of print ads showing their products in semi-futuristic home settings often featuring the UnnecessarilyLargeInterior: witness [[http://flickr.com/photos/gatochy/294062767/sizes/o/in/set-72157594350839068/ this open-plan living room]], at least forty feet across, with loft bedroom above, thirty-foot ceiling, floor-to-ceiling plate glass on all sides looking out onto a mountain lake, open stairwell to the private dock where the speedboat is moored... and twenty-one-inch black-and-white Motorola television.

** A more justified example is the monster holding facility in [[Area51 Area 52]]. It was meant to house thousands of monsters of various sizes. The "unnecessarily" part comes from the fact that it never seems to house more than a handful at any given time.

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* The monster holding facility in ''MonstersVsAliens''. It was meant to house thousands of monsters of various sizes. It only has a handful.

A tendency, of SpeculativeFiction pictures and art direction to have interiors much larger than would be needed in reality. As in what could be a large room becomes huge and cavernous. Sometimes the story tries to justify this, claiming the {{Phlebotinum}} needs this much empty space to work, but usually it's just because BiggerIsBetter (or because the higher the ceiling, the more stuff there is to drop down on the escaping heroes when the [[CollapsingLair building collapses]]).

-->"Isn't space on a space station kind of at a premium? What's the big corridor down the middle of it for?"\\
-- ''{{Unskippable}}'' on a corridor that a space battleship is flying through in ''{{Vanquish}}''

-- ''{{Unskippable}}'' on ''{{Vanquish}}''

A tendency, of SpeculativeFiction pictures and art direction to have huge, cavernous interiors. Sometimes the story tries to justify this, claiming the {{Phlebotinum}} needs this much empty space to work, but usually it's just because BiggerIsBetter (or because the higher the ceiling, the more stuff there is to drop down on the escaping heroes when the [[CollapsingLair building collapses]]).

* The Secret Government Warehouse at the end of ''[[IndianaJones Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' (which reappears in ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''). What does the government [[GovernmentConspiracy have to hide]] besides the Ark of the Covenant and [[spoiler:the aliens from Roswell]]? [[http://www.warehouse23.com/basement/ You're not cleared to know what]].
** A government that couldn't hide Monica Lewinski from a press that adored Clinton for two weeks can hide something MUCH more interesting from the public eye for 70 years? Yeah, Right!

* Ship and station interiors in StarTrekOnline are several times larger than what appeared on any of the shows. The developers claim it's necessary for proper camera control to work. The fanbase has had...[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Understatement mixed reactions]].

** What an impractical floor plan. The bedroom area offers no privacy whatsoever, and between the big ol' hole in the floor and the giant plate glass windows, the cost to heat it would be astronomical.
*** It looks to this troper as if there are roll-up screens for the bedroom area. You can see them in the upper part of the drawing, along with what looks like mooring for the cords.

* St. Peter's Basilica in Rome has a dome that's 42 meters in diameter. The rest of the church is... larger. It is the largest Christian church in the world (it's not acutally a Cathedral) and it's said that if its roof were to be removed, the second-largest church could be lowered inside, and the roof put back in place (in practice such insane operation would have to be done in pieces, of course)!

*** For as large as Black Mesa is, if you [[http://www.nextdimension.org/bmrf/Black_Mesa_Research_Facility_HL_Map.jpg map out the facility]] (warning: HUGE image), you'll notice some interesting things; for instance, the big sludge pit in "On a Rail" is mere ''feet'' away, on the other side of a wall, from the test chamber where everything goes wrong.

* The Hacker's house in the the second ''GhostInTheShell'' movie includes several large rooms including an enormous Music box style room and a great hall that appears to be outdoors.

Note that "Unnecessarily" is in the title for a reason. If there is an actual practical need for it to be that large, it doesn't count. The Galactic Senate building, in ''StarWars'', is not an example, because it's obviously to hold all of the senators from the many worlds of the Republic, sort of like a sports stadium. Neither is the Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida. It's large enough to have clouds form inside it on humid days, but it does have the purpose of building rockets, which need that much space.

* ''{{Blame}}''! is a manga ''set'' in a never-ending series of ridiculously large superstructures. This is more-or-less [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in-universe, as the machines responsible for constructing TheCity have been doing so unguided for countless millennia. [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whoa.png This]] conversation is held in a "room" that encompasses roughly the ''entire diameter of Jupiter''. [[spoiler:Because that's where Jupiter used to be before it was ''swallowed up'' by TheCity...]]

* Ship and station interiors in StarTrekOnline are several times larger than what appeared on any of the shows. The developers claim it's necessary for proper camera control to work. The fanbase has had...[[understatement mixed reactions]].