The Rubik's Cube

Our Rube Goldberg Machine consists of exactly fifteen steps. It includes all fifteen required areas of physics.

Every religion has its own approach to art and architecture. An assessment between different traditions can offer an illuminating insight into the varying religious outlooks and theologies. Architecture, as well as art, is influenced by a number of forces in society, in the environment, in the psychology of the people who produce it, and in different institutions. It is an expression of inner feelings and beliefs and so naturally is influenced by religion in many societies. Religious architecture is created to experience the sacred, to provide a place into which spiritual energies flow and reflect a sense of the divine. Some

When an artist or architect creates some sort of architecture, sculpture or painting there is typically a reasoning or meaning behind why the artist or architect created the piece. It can be either a representation of their life or experiences, an idol or someone the individual looks up to or considers a model

Do you know about the sculpture in front of the CIA that has baffled cryptologists for over 20 years? Do you know who was the first to solve it? Do you know who made it and the other sculptures he has made? If not, and you want to know then you’ve come to to the right place!

The students ranging from high school to college are encouraged to use teamwork and problem solving skills to complete the task.

It was an average day for Mr. Sprinkle; warm, sunny, but also with a slight breeze coming in from the west. Inside his house, coffee started to pout in the kitchen while his wife started to prepare breakfast for the children. Sprinkle got up from his sleep, still sore from the previous day’s workout at the gym, and proceeded to head to the closet to get dressed. After putting on his collared dress shirt, he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. Along the way, he stumbled upon a couple of the kid’s toys left on the floor from last night. One of which was an unsolved Rubik’s Cube. Midway through brushing his teeth, he heard that the kids are already up and eating their breakfast in the dining room. Once the kids were done with their food, they, alongside with Mr. Sprinkle and his wife, rushed around the house preparing to head out in a couple of minutes. After everyone was ready, they headed to the car that was in the garage. Everyone jumped in and buckled up their seat belts in near unison which gave Mr. Sprinkle a slight chuckle.

If I were to assign myself a mark, I would give myself a level 4. Firstly, our machine had more than four subsystems, which was more than what was required. In addition, many of our subsystems were not too simple, such as the pendulum and the catapult, which took several trials. In fact, it took us 37 tests to complete get the machine to do the task. However, we were determined and had the perseverance to finish this project. Furthermore, we put a lot of time and effort to make our Rube Goldberg work. We put extra work to our Rube Goldberg by testing and doing the project at school and at home. Moreover, we took the responsibility to get to talk to you about how well our project was and what modifications we can do to make the machine better.

Last year in my physics class, there was this project where I had to work with two other people to design and build unique a rube goldberg machine. Now, a rube goldberg machine is a series of small reactions that triggers one another, with the final reaction being to complete a simple task.

The cubes are intended to inflict pain on human bodies (state-of-the-art technology used to produce death by brutal scientific means. It’s designed to devoid the traditional architectural elements like doors, windows, and ornaments. Its simplistic appearance, becomes a maze due to its repetitive nature, as well as lack of spatial references. Thus the shape, material, and composition of the cube correspond neatly to the aesthetic parameters of modern architecture. Enormous, repetitive, and constructed material to the exact proportion symbolizing factory efficiency. From the outside, it looks as though the cube is just composed of several black block

As writer, interior designer, educator, and American architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization” (BrainyQuote). The purpose of this paper will deal with the description of...

Architecture should be nurturing, responsive and alive, dynamically shifting spatial balances, organically expressive forms, subtly luminous colors and biologically healthy. To achieve such life-enhancing architecture, it has to address all the body senses simultaneously and fuse our image of self with experience of the world. By strengthening our sense of self and reality, architecture serves its all-important function of accommodation and

Before the end of my second year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, I began to ponder on the possibility of quitting architecture. It was a convoluted time of uncertainty; I wasn’t sure whether I was prepared to become an architect and take on the responsibility and commitment to better the built environment. Nevertheless, I decided to give myself one last shot at architecture before giving up – I accepted the internship offer from MAD Architects in Beijing, China. There, I got to meet many young architects

Architecture is often mistaken as purely an art form, when in actually it is where art and engineering or art and practicality meet. For example, painting is an art, when preformed well it yields a beautiful picture that evokes a deep human reaction and brings pleasure to its viewer, however this painting provides no function, it cannot shield us from the rain or protect us from the wind or snow, it is purely form. An insulated aluminum shed provides shelter and protection from Mother Nature; however, it is a purely functional building, it was drawn by an engineer, not conceived by an artist to have form. The culmination of form and function is Architecture, the Greeks and Romans fathered this idea and Palladio’s study of roman architecture taught him his valuable truth.

The book consists of twelve chapters that propose this idea that designers should explore the nature of our senses’ response to the spatial built forms that people invest their time in. It tries to cover a specific topic in each chapter that in order to deconstruct the book, it is necessary to cover each chapter individually.

Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what