Week 2:

• Week 2:  Vertical Load

• Glue-Gun:
• Our group attempted to have an efficient structure by minimising the amount of material we were using. We opted for a triangulated form braced from the corners to adjacent bridging members.
• The structure was rigid and held up well to an extent. However since the joints were heavily secured, the structure was lacking a way to transmit fluidly the forces towards the entire structure and so with nowhere for the force to be transmitted to other members, the skewers snapped.

• Tension:
• The Bracing held up to an extent. However the make-shift pin joints wasn’t not secure enough and so the structure was vulnerable to deformation with a simple rotation.
• The bracing however worked well and the whole structure deflected and adjusted with the simulation of the weight test.
• The pint joints allowed for slight movement to occur and so the energy being transferred could fluidly be dispersed around the structure and not have choke points where all the stress was isolated in one area.
• However the problem again was that to an extent if the stress was too much, the pin joints would rotate too much and so the whole structure would enter a twisting motion and fail
• If in returning to this model, I would secure a way to have a limit on the pin-joint rotation and hopefully avoid the twist.

• Paper:
• The structure worked quite well. The honeycomb of paper utilised the notion of going against the grain giving more structure from materiality. As the weight was placed onto the model, the cylinders began to deform and compress and that deformation increased the radius of the cylinders and the whole model collectively. To counterbalance this, the band of paper worked to contain this and so underwent tension from physical expansion from the cylinders. These two systems worked together to give a homogenous and well structure model.
• However where the model failed was bracing, so the overbearing weight began to tilt, the vertical structure failed and collapsed on its side. In thinking about re-doing it, I would apply walls or bracing support around the outside to prevent the rotating of the cylinders