Architecture
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Background: When a fully-stocked kitchen is just one room away from you, it’s really easy to constantly snack at non-officially-sanctioned mealtimes. The issue: But the tyranny of prescribed mealtimes must be obeyed if one is to avoid eventually becoming completely spherical (due to being completely full of delicious snacks). Fig 1: A delicious snack in…
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Background: Sometimes, a difficult task or obligation hangs over a person, and is said to be “heavy” or “crushing.” The issue: However, until now, there has been no way to properly represent a person’s currently unresolved obligations in a three-dimensional space. Proposal: In order to reduce procrastination and make it easier for a person to…
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Background: Many cities have serious shortages of buildable space in the most desirable areas—most land that is available for development has already been taken. Proposal: Allow building of a “second level” of city on the un-used space above the streets Fortunately, there actually is a large amount of unused space in each city (generally, approximately…
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Background: Old 8-bit video games typically do not adhere to modern standards of occupational safety or handicapped-accessibility. The issue: The issue we will deal with here is making an old game, in this case, Zelda II for the Nintendo Entertainment System, properly compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Obviously this will be simplified,…
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6 Baffling Apartment Arrangements You Won’t Believe Are Real* (* they are not real)
architecture, hey there’s no space for a dining table, man who designed those layouts anyway, movable walls, reconfigure your apartment, some crazy apartment layouts or something, those bedrooms in the floorplan don’t look like they would actually fit a bed, those bedrooms would totally fit like a crib or twin bed, what is a “den” anyway isn’t that just a living room, whoa what is up with these layouts
The issue: Many modern apartments are extremely well-built structurally (or perhaps even over-built), but have terrible interior layouts. Unfortunately, it is extremely expensive to reconfigure a floorplan, even if no load-bearing walls (or walls concealing wires or plumbing) need to be modified. For maximum cost-efficiency, a person interested in remodeling could potentially just take a…
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