Is the desk for actual work, like school work? I wouldn’t like being in that small jail like cubby hole to do anything other than play astronaut, forget being in there to memorize history.
How about the desk stretches out along the back wall giving plenty of space to pull up a real chair and not be so confined. Then you can fabricate a mission control panel that folds down over the front of the desk? Imagine something like a roll top desk under the bunk, and the roll top is the control panel.
