ALICE - SCALE, TIME, REALITY THE RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE

GOAL
To design a four-dimensional space that promises to engage a child’s imagination. It has to provide opportunities to experience unusual and interesting characteristics, ideas and phenomena, providing quiet time for reading and relaxing and active time for sharing and blowing off steam.

OBJECTIVES

• To Raise the Issue of the Model as a Means to Inquiry

• To Raise Issues Involved with the Passage of Time in Space

• To Consider the Difference Between “Program” as a List of

  Building Requirements and “Program” as a Concept of Participation.

  PROGRAM
  To use gravity as the force that continues a sequence of events after the sequence is started by intervention. It has to have an entrance and exit, a list of characters, a story as sequence of events, an ordering/proportioning system, scale-giving devices, acceleration/deceleration devices, rising and falling decides and it must demonstrate some value.

  A marble engages in more than 20 events and must be in motion for at least 10 seconds. The maximum size of the landscape is 10’x10’x10’ located in the CDES courtyard.

  ARCH 5282, Summer 2002, Assignments 1.2.3
  Group Members: James Wheeler, Johanna Friendshuh Jade, Bridget Cermak, Beth