We were asked to build an earthquake-resistant structure out of blue tack and spaghetti in science this term. We had a $60 budget, and each serving of spaghetti and one gram of Blu Tack cost the same amount. In the real world, this would be about constructing an earthquake-safe structure in an earthquake-prone area without having a lot of resources or money. The objective was to engineer a safe structure utilising the materials we had, rather than employing a lot of expensive materials.
The process of making this structure included, a design sprint, prototype one, testing of prototype one, and then using that failed model to improve the second one. Before building the second one we did extensive research on common earthquake-proof structures around the world. Once we were all happy with the plans, we got to building. The first layer went great, but after we started to add height, things went downhill. With the design we chose, we didn’t factor in just how fragile our materials were, so it didn’t exactly work out and we had to change it last minute. One thing I would change about this, is choosing a simpler design that would be more achievable with our given resources, and to not star over so last minute, i overall think our group did well with this structure.
