The Random Lift Button Project

11 November 2006 | Category: Uncategorized

The Random Lift Button Project

The Random Lift - currently installed in two lifts in Portland Square at the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. By pressing the ‘R’ button, people are taken to a random floor. The idea is to investigates the relation between space, time and architecture through conceptual approaches.

“Sorry I’m late, the lift kept choosing a different floor”

The Random Lift Button project was conceived as an opportunity to exemplify further the role of space at the mercy of time. Certainly in large commercial buildings lifts are implemented to squash space and enable people to move more quickly from one work activity to the next. Lifts become a temporal slippage in the experience of a building as a whole, we skip space and avoid people, places and the opportunity to see the ‘whole’.

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7 Comments

  1. Chris
    on January 1st, 2008
    1

    Do you think that (R) might be for roof??? drr.

  2. Ken
    on January 27th, 2008
    2

    (R) means REVERSE. In case you need to go backwards.

  3. Crusher
    on April 17th, 2008
    3

    Roof?! Reverse?! No. (R) is for read.

  4. Indica Man
    on May 11th, 2008
    4

    No, R means ‘Replay’. It only works if you go to another distinct floor first…say the fifth floor. Each time you hit the R button, you go back to where you came from and the lift takes you back to the fifth floor, but in slow motion.
    It’s a real spacetime continuum thing as applied to architecture.

  5. Aaron
    on May 16th, 2008
    5

    Hey, what if the (R) actually meant random? What a concept! Instead of trying to figure out what it is, why not just take it for what it says it is!

  6. Catarina
    on May 29th, 2008
    6

    No, (R) is for Rest. If you press it, the lift will stand still for ever and ever. So don’t press it.

  7. Hiawen Dwa
    on June 6th, 2008
    7

    We had these in Hong Kong, where I believe this photo was taken. It means, “Rut fwor do roo rant?”

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