Tag Archives: engineering

Real-World Stress Test

For this assignment, our Building Materials and Construction class split into small groups and built structures large enough to hold an 8″ x 8″ x 14″ box, out of any materials, joined any way except welding or soldering, with no member thicker than half an inch. They also had to have flat tops, because [...]

Lilivoltaiq, or Nature as Structure

This was a group project with Chantelle Hamilton and Maryam Aghajani. The point was to design a structure with 7m or more clear span, based on a natural structure. We chose lilypads, specifically the Victoria Amazonica, which is strong enough to hold up small children. We called our structure Lilivoltaiq because it is a [...]

Leaf Tower

The leaf tower was one of my favourite assignments of the year, since I managed to make it do something a bit special. The rules were to make a three-dimensional structure out of one sheet of bristol board, with only cuts and folds, and without removing any of the paper. Here’s what I came up [...]