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Even the smallest habitats maintain a division between the moon pool room and the living area. That was one of the most valuable design lessons learned from the first gen 1960s undersea labs, which lacked this barrier. Without it the interior becomes intolerably humid. You can't sleep, you can't work, it's miserable. And if you have heating/air conditioning very little extra equipment is needed to use it to condense moisture out of the air and keep it dry, you just need a door between the living space and the moon pool area to keep the humidity from spreading faster than the condensing system can remove it.

Baylab schematic. Vandweller would be at home here. For anyone else, very snug.