Our Second PBL

First of all, my apologies for this being way over due.

As I've said in my last post, our group's second PBL was based on the Circus Maximus. You can read it in full form below, but here is a brief summary of what we had to do:

1. Can we prove, by what we found, that this is in fact the Circus Maximus?
2. Construct a model of the Circus Maximus from back in the day (my words, not the PBL's)
3. Explain what roles this stadium played in Rome's culture
4. Construct a model for a new Circus Maximus in the year 12,200 AD
5. Explain what roles this stadium would play in our culture

My part of this PBL was to build the new model and to explain its role, particularly the technology behind it. I volunteered to build the second model because Nick had already done an amazing job with the first model and I was the only other person in the group with model making experience (I had dabbled a little in my two quarters at DAAP). You can see all of my prelimenary sketches and ideas two posts down from this one. I suggest you check that out before continuing on in this post. I decided to build the model out of chipboard, mostly because that was the only material I had experience with, and I decided with one week left, it wasn't the time to be taking chances on learning a new material. So below you can see several pictures I have taken of the new model of the Circus De Maxima I built. This model is of the level of a bad high-school art student, you've been warned.


Here is the entrance to the new stadium. I added a drawing of what it would look like when completed. Basically, with this model, it was a prelimenary sketch of a model. There was no way to actually build, whether physically or with a computer, the stadium we wanted. No one in our group had that kind of technology or experience, so this is what I did.






Here is a top-slanted-side picture of the model. You can see the surrounding rim and the inner most ring of the stadium. Again, I suggest reading my first post on this PBL so you can imagine what I was trying (failing) to do with chipboard and rubber cement.







Here is the final picture I took of the model. You can see the entrance, the general shape, the inner most ring, and the ring around the top.












Below is the link to the paper I wrote out (with major help from Alison, the Business major of the group) explaining the nitty-gritty aspects of the building such as cost, technology, seating levels, etc. This document is hosted on Google Documents so anyone should be able to view it. If however you cannot, shoot me a comment and I'll send it to you via email as an attachment.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dzxjsr9_8gxx2x2f7

There you have it, my little part of a big picture.