The challenge we were given was to build an earthquake proof building from uncooked spaghetti pasta and BlueTack. The structure had a minimum dimension of 60cm tall and maximum 30 cm wide. We started by doing research into earthquake safe buildings and how they were made. We found that the use of triangles was common as these gave it strength and cross braces. So in our first design with used those too create our building. Once we created that and tested it out I didn’t work. So we went back and made a new design and it worked and added more onto that ad then that was our final result. In our final design it had triangles and lots of cross braces and we added support stands. Our new and improved model as kept the same structure but we have added more spaghetti. We added more spaghetti pieces to build more triangles and add cross braces to our desgin and we added more supporting stands one from the top of our building to the top of the base which provided a lot more support. The overall desgin is still very simplistic and easy to build and doesn’t use many complex features. It is a more expensive now but still under the $60 maximum the base still fits under 30×30 and is 60 cm.
The challenges we faced was the making of the building since the spaghetti was super fragile so it would break and trying to stay in the budget. But over all our team really struggled on getting it done intime. I was the person on my team that designed the building and created it so we would test it. I did this part since I am good with my hand and I can draw the designs. I also help Emily to do the question 6 to 10 as none else in our group was t here that day, but I think me and Emily were very efficient and got as much work as we could done. Emily was our teams main help and did most the writing and answering the question but I did the create and design part of the task.
over all I think this task was very fun and I learnt a lot about earthquake buildings.