In science this term we had to design and build an earthquake-resistant building. This building had certain restrictions and requirements, including having a minimum height of 60cm, a maximum base of 30 x 30 cm, and the top of the building had to be a minimum of 5 x 5 cm. We also had restrictions on materials. We had $60 total and we had to manage the amount of materials we used so we would stay on budget. 1 spaghetti stick or 1 gram of blue-tac were $1 each. To make this building we had to define the task, brainstorm ideas, research real earthquake-resistant buildings, create a building out of pasta and blue tack, test and evaluate this building, and Improve it leading up to the final test. We used the engineering process to make our project, and improve to the strength it is today. Overall we spent $17 on blue tack and $42 on pasta, for a total of $59, $1 left over.

The Engineering design process

Define

First we defined the task, what we needed to do, how we needed to do it and why we were doing it.

Brainstorm

After we defined the task we started brainstorming for ideas, the drawings inserted below.

Our brainstorm

Research

After brainstorming we researched for real life ways to make a building earthquake-resistant and applied this to our own design.

Design

Then we designed our building based off of the research we made, our design is below.

our design

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