Compact Colosseum

About this model

A curved section of a Roman amphitheatre in the style of the Colosseum: three storeys of open arches with Doric, Ionic and Corinthian half-columns, a solid attic with small windows on top, and one end broken off in steps the way the real ring is. Behind the arches runs a corridor, and behind that a solid inner block. Each laptop blade stands in that block, one per bay, so from outside you look through the arches at the corridor and a plain wall, never at a board. You pick 2, 3 or 4 computers and the ring grows by one bay each: 0.95 m tall every time, about 0.48 m wide with two and 0.80 m with four, about 0.49 m deep. Air comes in through the arches, drops through the lattice floor of the corridor into the hollow base, rises past each board and leaves through the lattice fronts of the seat steps on top. At night LED strips under the corridor floors light the arches from inside. One 260 W supply runs everything; the supply, the network switch and the shared disk lie in the base under the block. To swap a blade you lift the seat steps above it and pull the blade straight up by its tab.

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