Constructing Environment Studio Journal Week 2 ctivity 1: ‘Frame’ Framing in construction *Build tower as high as possible using balsa wood. *Stress the resulting structures to collapse Steps： a) At begin we just came up with the concept that regard equilateral triangles as the section (it will be very stable). Then joint each wood strips with three corners. As can be seen below that is the planed model. The triangles is becoming smaller gradually till we build a taper on the top. In order to look much taller we stick a single at the top b) While there was an incident that we did not have any material because of some reason.
Wanzhen Ma 581758
Constructing Environment Studio Journal
Wanzhen Ma 581758
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But we borrowed a hard-paper which were able to supply enough strip for us to build a frame. Each strip was cut into 0.5cm width.
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c) In order to mad the whole frame to become more solid, we added thumbtacks around the tower (as circled in red).
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d) With the tower become more and more higher, the top region getting narrow. Finally reach in 170cm.
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Result: Loads was shared by the strips which just around the whole building. Though it looks stable at the end, heavy loads will result the collapse