Library+of+Imagination

Library of Imagination  By: Cameron Johnston and Devon Fang For my objects, I chose things that I thought represented the imagination and potential of the human race.

FLOOR 1 OF MY BUILDING - IN THE PAST TIMES


 * 1) The first telescope that Galileo created to help further our knowledge of space and the universe, to show that even in the past, people still longed to expandthier knowledge on everything.
 * 2) Ptolemy's map, which is an upgraded type of map that sailors in the Renaissance period used to help navigate the oceans, to show once again, people wanted to know more about our world, in space, and in the seemingly endless oceans.
 * 3) The model of the new ships they created, called Caravels, to be able to sail faster, due to a new shape of sails, and because of the type of wood they used, and the shape of the body, they were able to stand up to a harsher beating of the storms at sea. We chose this because they were invented near the time of Ptomely's map, so that together, they could sail faster and reach new places, so that further generations of the human race would know more about where everything is in the world.
 * 4) The Wright Brothers' first plane that flew in Kitty Hawk, representing the brothers' hard work and will to succeed.
 * [[image:http://www.old-picture.com/wright-brothers/pictures/Wright-Brothers-Airplane-001.jpg height="265" caption="Wright Brothers Airplane"]] ||

FLOOR 2 OF MY BUILDING - IN THE PRESENT


 * 1) Some interesting brain puzzles, like optical illusions, to show that our eyes and brain cannot see everything, sometimes you need your imagination to help fill things in.
 * 2) A copy of the missile that N.A.S.A. shot at the moon, representing the thirst for knowing whether or not there is water, and or life on the moon.
 * 3) The rocket that was the first to go to the moon, called Lunik II, because it represents knowledge and evolution of technology, and also shows advancement, from Galileo's wish to know about space to actually going to space itself.
 * 4) <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">Stonehenge, because it represents the air of mystery that still confuses the human race, while people use their IMAGINATIONS to try and figure out wht they were used for.

FLOOR 3 OF MY BUILDING - IN THE FUTURE
 * 1) <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The evolution of technology, as in <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">computers and <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">televisions, to show that while the human race ripened with new knowledge, the technology and inventions were also racing along with us, andthe imagination it tookto make them more effiient and more convienient.
 * 2) <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And last but not least, I'd have the <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; padding-right: 10px;">evolution of transportation, from horse-drawn carriages to convertibles, to (hopefully) flying cars in the future. This is to show that as humans evolve, they require better and stronger forms of transportation that can get them to their destination faster.

MY BUILDING ITSELF

I figured that for my building, I would have it be the spitting image of the Greek Colosseum, to show how humans desired entertainment, and it took an architect with many skills and imagination to come up with it. The colosseum took many long years to build just to have fun in it. On the inside of our building, we made it so the the first floor has the inventions from the past times, so we would make it look old, with everything, either from back then, or to look like it did! The second floor would be present time things, so the room would look like a normal museum room now. The top floor would have a very futuristic appeal to it, with lots of colours, and interacting displays like at the, "Telus World of Science". At night the outer walls of my building will light up with tubes of coloured florecent light, that would change colours with the beat or rythme to any song you chose, you just give a request to the DJ and watch the magic. That is what my building would look like.