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The lifts (elevators) where I work have chunky stone floors - a
standard ploy from lift manufacturers to make lift users feel
like the floor is reassuringly solid and not a thin platform
above a terrifying void. This made me think, a natural floor
might be even better in this respect - so the
lift floor would
be made up of moss, grass and gravel. When the lift is
unoccupied, full spectrum lighting and a water mister comes
on to keep the plants alive. There are elegant stepping stones
in the moss and gravel, wild flowers growing, and maybe a
lichen-encrusted log to sit on. Thus the short period of time
you spend in the lift would change from being a tedious wait
between floors to a Zen-like contemplation of the beauty of
nature.
pressure sensitive color changing liquid crystal space fidget
http://www.bing.com...ce+fidget&FORM=IGRE
[beanangel, Oct 30 2015]
[link]
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"What's that plant in the corrner then, the one with the long, thin, pointy leaves ? Mike from Purchasing seems curiously posessive about it ..." |
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Maintenance and cleaning? The same scenario trapped in a glass bottom floor, or just a fish tank with sharks at your feet? |
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//a thin platform above a terrifying void//
This could equally well be a description of George Osborne's hair. |
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Or indeed of current Conservative fiscal policy. |
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I love it. I might even sit down and meditate for 15 seconds,
whilst on my way home in the eve. No more blank stares at
blank staring people. +++++ |
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[+] but saunas, bathroom stalls, weight-rooms, convenience stores, et cetera could be other options. |
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//This could equally well be a description of George Osborne's hair.//
Actual lol. |
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This idea though, yech. It goes against everything that powers the Urge to Build, it goes against mankind's need to escape the gravid, sucking earth. We build up not out of convenience or because of cost but so that we can, as yer man said, slip surly bonds. Everything that rises must converge. But this lift causes not the land to rise but the Omega Point, otherwise fixed in the heavens, to be pulled down towards the earth, each lift's maximum reach dragging our aspiration back towards the soil. This is not an act of making our goals achievable, no, it is an act of sabotaging our hope. |
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+ I love it! Maybe some frogs and crickets, too. |
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//mankind's need to escape the gravid, sucking earth// - for those that feel this urge, there is an alternative lift with a floor surface resembling the peak of a high mountain. The floor is uneven and rocky, with lumps of ice and snow. The unfiltered full-spectrum lights in the lift require the wearing of snow goggles, a powerful wind machine blows
ice-cold air across the lift interior and a vacuum pump reduces the oxygen levels such that lift occupants are kept on the verge of passing out. |
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Yes [xandram], rivet, rivet. |
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I think it's ribet! (rivets will hold the thing all together) |
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I'm ok with all the dirt and such as long as there are no
plastic flowers stuck in it. The smell of confined plastics is
IMHO nauseating. And not too sure about Kermit. He might
leap, I might shriek and set off the neurotic exec assistant
from the 14th floor, thereby destroying the placid earthy
ness. Otherwise + |
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//The smell of confined plastics// Ah, but I love the
smell of plastics. I have been known to sniff newly-
opened 50ml plastic tubes in the lab. |
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Why not have giant hydraulic lifts. You step into a tube and water pushes you up the shaft slowly, and to go back down water is slowly drained. That way you only need a buoyant lift though salt water may have issue with corrosion. Heavy oil may also work to even using break fluid. |
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I was going to anno something similar but opposite. The descending counter-weight drawing the elevator upward could be a water-filled container that empties at bottom, the water is then raised to the buildings' top in the form of steam. |
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What?... Nature-Lift needs a little waterfall in the corner. |
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I have no idea what I was talking about on 28 October. |
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you had it right with the worms though... |
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there is a pressure sensitive liquid crystal thing called a
space fidget [link] |
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placing that at an elevator would cause it to change colors
with acceleration either direction from Earth |
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nifty swirls of varying color at the base of the elevator
responsive to humans movements |
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also I like the idea as described |
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