UT2004 Screen Captures of Elevator Concept

Video of concept elevator movement

Elevator Concepts

UT2004 Development and orignal single point perspective

18 One point perspectives

Carlos Slim

“The average Mexican encounters a Slim-owned business when she visits an ATM, drives a car, stops for coffee, and especially when she picks up the phone - Slim's Teléfonos de México controls 92% of the country's phone lines, and his América Móvil wireless service has a 70% market share. George W. Grayson, a professor of government at the College of William & Mary, coined the term "Slimlandia" to describe how entrenched the Slim family's companies are in the daily life of Mexicans.
It's not a reverential term. Many Mexicans hoped privatization, which began in the early 1990s, would create competition and drive prices down drastically. That hasn't happened. "Slim is one of a dozen fat cats in Mexico who impede that country's growth because they run monopolies or oligopolies," says Grayson. "The Mexican economy is highly inefficient, and it is losing its competitive standing vis-à-vis other countries because of people like Slim."
Extracted from Carlos Slim, the richest man in the world
The son of a Mexico City shopkeeper has built a staggering $59 billion fortune. Fortune's Stephanie Mehta tells the inside story of how he made it to the top.
Fortune Magazine By Stephanie N. Mehta, Fortune senior writer http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/03/news/international/carlosslim.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007080614 accessed 07/09/2007

Ratan Tata

“It will cost $2,200. And you know why we took on this project? Again and again here in India, I see entire families riding a single scooter: The father drives with one child standing just in front of him, and the mother sits behind with a baby on her arm. I have seen that so often... even during rainstorms or at night. And each time, I think: Oh God, can't we do something to help these families travel more safely? So we launched this project. Our goal is to develop an inexpensive and safe vehicle. ”

Extracted from INTERVIEW WITH INDIAN INDUSTRY MOGUL RATAN TATA Spiegel Magazine Interview conducted by Padma Rao and Thomas Tuma http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,476262,00.html accessed 07/09/2007

Zhang Yin

In 1949 female illiteracy in rural China was 99 per cent. In 1976 when Mao died it was 45 per cent and today it is 13 per cent. One of Mao's first acts was to give women the same rights in divorce as men, and for all his other barbarism he consistently championed the equality of women.
China is still a sexist society, but compared with the rest of Asia it is light years ahead. Female illiteracy in rural India, for example, is still 55 per cent. The change has gone deep into the marrow of Chinese society. One survey recently revealed that Chinese girls between 16 and 19 name becoming president, chief executive or senior manager of a company as their top career choices; Japanese girls between 16 and 19 say they want to become housewives, flight attendants or child-care workers. One of China's most formidable economic and social resources has become its women
Extracted from, Thanks to Mao, Zhang Yin's a billionaire The revolutionary leader transformed women's lives, but China still has a long way to go,

by Will Hutton ,Sunday October 15, 2006The Observer http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1922797,00.html accessed 07/09/2007

Experiment 2 Final Model

Cyclic Adaptation

The ramps cycle, like life, not always in the same direction but on the same path, for any one traveller it could end in a second, but the cycle carries on

Destructive Life

Man kind’s greatest creations destroy what has all ready been, carved from the solid rock in minutes, but if he slips he will destroy himself

Beneath the meeting space

Darwin's Peril

Selection Space

Bridge the gaps of evolution under the shadow of the church above, only those who can adapt to this environment with its perils will survive here continuing the circle of life.

Hawking's Space before application of custom textures

Darwin space before application of custom textures

36 Custom Textures

Electroliquid Aggregation

Life, Destruction, Two points on the same circle
Adaption and improvisation do not make the circle any larger
Only influence what is left behind, Will our greatest legacy be the
Removal of ourselves?


Charles Darwin
"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind too) those who have learned to colaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed"

Steven Hawking
"I think that computer viruses should count as life. Maybe it says something about human nature, that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive"

Model Development

Experiment 2 Week 2 - Continued Model Development

Axonometric Projections of Joined Spaces

Original UT2004 Developments

18 Axonometric Projections