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Summary of the project:

For this project we had to design a building that would withstand a major earthquake. There were a few requirements for our designs such as

• is quick and easy to assemble.
• has a minimum height of 60 cm
• has a maximum base of 30 cm x 30 cm
• has a flat platform on the top level of at least 5 cm x 5 cm
• remains standing after an earthquake, as simulated by shaking a table for 10 seconds
• is constructed from the materials supplied by your teacher.
• costs less than $60 to build, given the material costs listed below.  This budget will be provided twice: once for the initial prototype, and once again for the second prototype.

We were only allowed to use spaghetti sticks and blue tack to try and create a scale model of our design. Once our model was created, we then had to test the design’s ability to withstand a major earthquake, any alterations we made were a part of our second prototype design.

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Design process and alterations:

Through this project we researched, created, and altered many new structures to try and find the best structure that worked for us. This is what the process looked like:

1. We researched and planned out different structure ideas that we could try, as well as allocated our group members’ roles.
2. We started on the design process, gathering all our materials and starting to create our first prototype
3. From here we tested our 1^st prototype out, to see how well it could withstand a major earthquake.
4. We evaluated our testing and came up with some alteration ideas that we then applied.
5. Once the alterations were done and we were happy with the result of our 2^nd prototype, we then tested it again. Hoping that it would improve and be the perfect building.
6. After we had finished our prototypes, we then reflected and evaluated our building structure talking about what we would change next time, and how well we did overall.

Feature alterations: In the future we would probably start off with a better structure, one that we were certain would withstand an earthquake, so that it could save us time and pressure with all the alterations and to make the process a lot smoother.

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 Teamwork and collaboration:

Our group’s collaboration and teamwork was super good and we were all working together and doing our part to help eachother through the project and do the best we could.

Paramie was in charge of the equipment and making sure we used the right amount of materiel and that we always had to materials in the right place.

Shi-Ying was our project manager and reporter, she made sure we were all on top of the work and she lead the main building process of our structures aswell as reported back to us about our progress and what was needed to be done.

I was the speaker/communicator I had to report back to my group about our progress and what needed to be done, I was also in charge of any photos and videos of the process making sure we had all the required footage we needed.

As a group we all contributed to the research and planning of the overall project. We all worked really well together and made the project fun and easy for all of us.

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