lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(1)1

lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(1)

1 1 ‒ Saving Abandoned Buildings with Creativity

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When
buildings
have
become
too
old
for
their
original
purpose they
are
often
simply
knocked
down
People
might
oppose tearing
down
the
old
buildings
especially
if
they
are
precious landmarks
but
it
is
hard
to
justify
letting
unused
structures
take up
valuable
space
In
such
cases
adaptive
reuse―the
reusing
of an
old
building
or
structure
for
something
other
than
its
original purpose―is
a
smart
solution
Here
are
some
outstanding examples
of
adaptive
reuse
from
around
the
world

Modern
Art
Museum
in
England

When
the
Bankside
Power
Station
in
London
was
shut
down
in 1981,
the
building
was
at
risk
of
being
torn
down
by
developers However
many
people
started
a
movement
to
save
the landmark
building
on
the
southern
bank
of
the
River
Thames Eventually
it
was
decided
that
this
building
would
be
used
as
a new
modern
art
museum
to
be
called
Tate
Modern
and
much
of the
character
of
the
original
power
station
building
would
be maintained

lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(2)

1 2 Saving Abandoned Buildings with Creativity

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Tate Modern still resembles the old power station on both the outside and the inside which features concrete floors and steel beams The Turbine Hall stretching 155 meters long 23 meters wide and 35 meters high was turned into a vast grand entrance area It also functions as a display space for large art installations Next to the Turbine Hall is the Boiler House which holds seven floors The reception and common areas are on the first two floors The third through the fifth floors have exhibition galleries The sixth and seventh floors feature restaurants and bars

The
Bankside
Power
Station
could
have
become
just
a
pile
of bricks
but
instead
it
has
been
transformed
into
one
of
the world s
largest
museums
of
modern
and
contemporary
art

Luxury
Hotel
in
the
Netherlands

Another
spectacular
example
of
adaptive
reuse
can
be
seen
in this
beautiful
hotel
in
the
Netherlands
which
blends
its
own unique
history
with
modern
functionality
The
building
was
one of
the
Netherlands
most
infamous
prisons
from
1863
until
2007.

However
it
has
undergone
a
complete
transformation
into luxurious
accommodations

lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(3)

1 3 Saving Abandoned Buildings with Creativity

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The building originally had 105 prison cells but these have been converted into 40 luxurious rooms The rooms have been updated with modern furnishings but details like exposed brick barred windows and original cell doors offer clues about its past If you need extra space suite rooms with names like The Judge The Lawyer The Jailer and The Director are available Guests can even enjoy a special dinner while slides of the jail s history are shown They are given black and white striped jail hats to get into the mood

This hotel used to be a place from which people desperately wanted to escape but with some creative thinking it has been turned into a place guests never want to leave

Tropical Theme Park in Germany

People living in Berlin who are eager to escape from the bitter cold of winter are now in luck Near the city a huge hangar for manufacturing airships has become a theme park where the sun always shines and the temperature remains a mild 26 degrees Celsius The hangar fell into disuse because the company that owned it went bankrupt in 2002 However a company in Malaysia looked at this massive deserted dome and saw great potential In 2004 the hangar opened as a tropical theme park

lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(4)

1 4 Saving Abandoned Buildings with Creativity

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Measuring about 66 000 square meters the dome is tall enough to fit the Statue of Liberty inside It contains the world s largest artificial rainforest with more than 50 000 plants The indoor pool is the size of four Olympic swimming pools and the waterslide is nine stories tall In the southern section of the dome a special foil roof produces artificial sunlight so visitors can get a tan even in the middle of winter

By looking at the enormous dome with new eyes a company was able to turn this huge space into an amazing vacation spot

Adaptive reuse helps us preserve our heritage while allowing for new creative developments at the same time Each of these remarkable destinations shows that by changing our point of view we can breathe new life into old abandoned buildings

lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(5)

2 1 ‒ GPS Born from a Change in Perspective

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For thousands of years humans had difficulty trying to figure out where they were So they devoted a great deal of time and effort to resolving this problem They drew complicated maps constructed great landmarks to keep themselves on the right path and even learned to navigate by looking up at the stars Nowadays it is much easier to find out where you are and which way to go because you have one of the world s greatest inventions at your fingertips As long as you have a Global Positioning System GPS receiver you never have to worry about taking a wrong turn Your GPS receiver can tell you your exact location and give you directions to any place you need to go to no matter where you are on the planet But how was this amazing technology invented

lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(6)

2 2 GPS Born from a Change in Perspective

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The story begins in 1957 when the Soviet Union shocked the world by announcing that it had launched Sputnik 1―the world s first man made satellite―into orbit In particular two researchers at Johns Hopkins University s Applied Physics Laboratory William Guier and George Weiffenbach were amazed by this achievement Filled with curiosity they built a listening station the following year and they began to closely monitor Sputnik 1 s radio signal While listening to the persistent sound from the satellite they noticed something interesting its radio frequency repeatedly became higher and lower This was happening because the frequency of a radio signal rises and falls depending on whether the satellite is moving toward or away from the listener By keeping track of these changes Guier and Weiffenbach were able to determine the satellite s precise location

lesson 3. Creativity in Everyday Life(7)

2 3 GPS Born from a Change in Perspective

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Although Guier and Weiffenbach found this fascinating tracking satellites was not exactly part of their duties Their director Frank McClure called them into his office suspecting that they had been wasting their time He asked them to explain the thing they had been working on As Guier and Weiffenbach explained themselves an idea flashed through McClure s mind If we can figure out where the satellite is McClure said then can t we do the opposite and use the satellite to figure out where we are This turned out to be a revolutionary insight Not only could radio signals be measured to track a satellite from the ground but by measuring the distance from the satellite to the receiver the receiver s precise location could be determined as well This is the fundamental concept behind modern GPS Satellites are utilized to transmit signals and any device with a GPS receiver can use these signals to calculate where you are how high you are and even how fast you are moving

McClure was able to come up with this brilliant insight by taking the idea Guier and Weiffenbach had been researching― finding where a satellite was from a known location―and turning it on its head Likewise we can produce extraordinary inventions and ideas by reversing our perspective The real act of discovery it has been said consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing things with new eyes